Traces Explorer

Use Last9's native UI for tarces with first-class search and filters — quickly view dependencies with a waterfall timeline, span attributes and events, and related logs by clicking on any trace span.

Using Traces Explorer

You can start exploring traces by visiting Traces Explorer in Last9. The Traces Explorer allows to filter traces by specific traces attributes and resource info to slice and dice by various trace dimensions, and view correlated telemetry.

Traces Explorer with a distrubution heatmap of latency durations

Last9 provides a native experience to explore your traces without using any query language.

• Search:
  • With auto-complete support, service and span are first-class attributes
  • Supported operators are equal, not equal, exists, and does not exist
• Time Picker: Select an absolute or relative time range. You can also switch between timezones.
• Duration Heatmap: A heatmap of latency distribution. Click and drag to zoom into and filter out specific outliers.

Trace Details

Trace Details with dependencies and waterfall timeline, and span attributes and events

Clicking on a trace in Traces Explorer opens a side panel with additional context and information about the selected trace ID.

• Duration and no. of spans
• Waterfall timeline with dependencies
  • Click on the count pill to view any child spans
  • Click on a span to view span details
• Span Details with:
  • Span Name
  • Span ID
  • Service Name
  • Attributes
  • Span Events
  • Links
• Span Context with attributes, resource info, and related logs

Troubleshooting

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