Understanding Trace Spans and IDs

Welcome to Distributed Tracing! Ever wonder exactly what happens when a user clicks a button, and that request travels through many services?

Traditional monitoring struggles with this. Distributed tracing is your solution to understand the full journey of a request across complex systems.

Think of a trace as the complete story of a single request or operation as it flows through all the services in your application.

• It starts when a request enters your system.
• It ends when the final response is sent.
• It captures every step in between, no matter how many services are involved.