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4. Distributed traces
Observability Basics · 36 pages source format
Spans show where time went across services. Find the slow parent. Spot errors mid-trace.
What you'll learn
- Spans
- Waterfalls
- Trace↔log links
Open one slow trace
Do this now
Pick a high-latency request. Identify the longest span. Write the bottleneck hypothesis.
Clear?