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Distributed tracing: from a latency spike to the root cause

When a request is slow, the question is always "where?". Tracing turns that guess into a timeline you can read.

Distributed tracing: from a latency spike to the root cause

A trace stitches one request across every service it touched, so a latency spike points at the exact hop that caused it.

Propagate context everywhere

A trace ID rides with the request through every call, queue, and worker, so nothing falls off the map mid-flight.

  • Context propagation across HTTP, gRPC, and async jobs
  • Sampling that always keeps slow and failed requests
  • Spans annotated with the queries and calls that actually ran

From spike to span

Correlated metrics, logs, and traces mean you jump from a dashboard anomaly straight to the request that caused it.

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