Traces Overview

Everything you need to know to start exploring traces with Last9.

Sending Traces to Last9

You can send a variety of distributed traces to Last9 from different sources:

You can also view the list of integrations in the Last9 app as well under the Traces category on the Integrations screen.

There are 3 primary ways of exploring Traces depending on specific use cases.

Traces Explorer: Use Last9's native UI for traces with first-class search and filters. Quickly view dependencies with a waterfall time, span attributes and events, and related logs by clicking on any trace. Learn more.
Grafana Tempo: For people who are familiar with Tempo, use Last9's embedded instance of Grafana. Learn more.
SQL Exploration: Last9 also allows exploring raw traces data using Clickhouse SQL. This is useful for adhoc exploration of Traces for deeper analysis. Contact Last9 team to provision a custom SQL data source for you.

Last9 accelerates queries when a query is made on following attributes.

For this reason, users are encouraged to filter by Service or Span Name first when searching for long time ranges.

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