Distributed Tracing
Coralogix has created a unique tracing experience, allowing you to observe and gain instant insights into your modern micro-services infrastructure. Use our updated Tracing function, alongside Logs and Templates, to enjoy powerful data visualization of your traces and spans.
Enjoy distributed tracing using our Tracing function. Optimize performance, troubleshoot bottlenecks, monitor latency, and link traces to logs in an improved visual format.
What is Tracing?
Tracing refers to the ability to trace the flow of a request or transaction through a system. Tracing provides a detailed view of how a request moves through various components of a system, helping to identify bottlenecks and performance issues and understand the overall system behavior.
Traces are made up of spans. A span represents a unit of work in a trace. It encapsulates information about a specific operation within the system, such as a method call or an HTTP request. Spans have a start time and duration and may contain additional metadata.
Query Traces & Spans
To access our Tracing function:
STEP 1. From the Coralogix navigation toolbar, click Explore > Tracing.
STEP 2. Choose whether you want to view spans or traces by clicking the SPANS/TRACES button in the toolbar. View only Frequent Search (high priority) data or data of all priority levels (Frequent Search, Monitoring, and Archive).
STEP 3. Search for traces/spans of interest with the relevant filters. For spans, you can use Lucene or DataPrime to run queries.
Notes:
When viewing traces, we will present the 50 latest traces that meet your specified filter criteria. Each displayed row is a trace, which may have multiple spans within it.
When viewing spans, 15,000 rows are displayed in either ascending or descending order based on the timestamp. Each row is a single span.
Hover over the trace or span number and click the ellipsis that appears to visualize the data, copy the ID, view the raw span, or export as a JSON or CSV file.
Filter
On the left-hand sidebar, you will find the following default filters:
Action
Service
Duration. The Duration filter allows you to find traces that last a long time or are within a certain min-max range that you can easily define, either by adjusting the double range slider from each side or by inputting the exact time in milliseconds in the start-end boxes above the slider.
Teams. When a user is a member of multiple teams, they can search for a trace across multiple teams in a single action. The list of teams will be displayed under the Teams filter.
Once you have added all of the relevant filters, click APPLY.
Save Your Traces View
If you would like to use the same filters and column order in the future:
STEP 1. Click SAVE VIEW at the top of the grid.
STEP 2. Enter a name for your new view.
STEP 3. Select whether you want to keep the view private or share it with your team.
STEP 4. Select whether you would also like to save the query parameters.
STEP 5. Select if you want to set this as your default view.
STEP 6. To access your saved views or your team’s public views, click SAVE VIEW. Once the View Menu pops up, scroll down and click on the name of your view. You can toggle between ‘All views’/’My views’, or search views by text.
Note: When you save the view, you save the view for the Logs and Tracing tabs at the same time.
Aggregation Function
In the tracing screen, the graphs in the top section give you the ability to calculate statistics using any of the supported arithmetic options: Count, AVG, MIN, MAX SUM and Percentiles (50th / 95th / 99th). You have the option of Grouping by: Application, Subsystem, Service and Action.
The tracing screen has 3 default graphs:
- Max Duration grouped by Action:
- Spans (count) grouped by Application:
- Errors (count) grouped by Service:
Choosing any aggregation other than Count will change the Y scale units of the graph into milliseconds.
Visualize Traces & Spans
Click on a trace of interest to view its underlying spans. Select your preferred visualization mode — Dependencies, Gantt, or Flame view — to explore varied views of the span data.
Find out more here.
APM Features
Choose RELATED DATA in your Overview Pane to access our APM features: related logs, events, pod, and host.
Pairing Spans with Related Logs
Define the mapping between the trace spans to the related logs by accessing the RELATED LOGS sub-screen and clicking Setup Correlation. This will open a menu where you will be able to add the relevant field containing the span ID.
Use the POD feature to enjoy additional visualized information.
Use the HOST feature to explore host performance.
There is also the option to be redirected to the relevant logs by clicking on Open Logs Query. This will direct you to a Logs screen, showing you the log containing the correlated span ID.
Additional Resources
| Documentation | Application Performance Monitoring (APM) OpenTelemetry |
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