Tracking Multi-Service Transactions with Correlation IDs

One problem that’s arisen with the use of Micro-service architectures is that there’s a need to correlate related transactions.  With micro-services, it’s common for a business action of some type to require multiple service calls.  If one of those service calls fails, sometimes it’s helpful to have context.  That is, information about service calls for that action that preceded the error.
The best way I’ve found for doing this is to use correlation ids.  A correlation id i...