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Learn how tracing data can help you understand application insights and performance as well as triaging issues in your services and applications.
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Use traces to find solutions Use cases
./introduction/solutions-with-traces/
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Use traces to find solutions

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Tracing is best used for analyzing the performance of your system, identifying bottlenecks, monitoring latency, and providing a complete picture of requests processing.

  • Decrease mean time to repair and mean time to identify an issue by pinpointing exactly where errors or latency are occurring within a transaction across multiple services.
  • Optimize bottlenecks and long-running code by visualizing the path and duration of requests. Tracing can help identify bottleneck operations and long-running pieces of code that could benefit from optimization.
  • Detect issues with generated metrics. Tracing generates metrics related to request rate, error rate, and duration of requests. You can set alerts against these high-level signals to detect problems.
  • Seamless telemetry correlation. Use tracing in conjunction with logs and metrics for a comprehensive view of events over time, during an active incident, or for root-cause analysis. Tracing shows relationships between services and dependencies.
  • Monitor compliance with policies. Business policy adherence ensures that services are correctly isolated using generated metrics and generated service graphs.

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Each use case provides real-world examples, including the background of the use case and how tracing highlighted and helped resolve any issues.