Tracing

Note

A vendor-agnostic implementation is under development. Currently you can already use Elastic APM.

Tracing makes it possible to follow the flow of requests across system boundaries, e.g. from one application to another. This makes it possible to pinpoint where errors or performance degrations are situated exactly. Trace IDs also make it possible to correlate the relevant log entries.

Note

Better support for (distributed) traces is underway.