Distributed Traces have empowered Architects, SREs, and Performance Engineers to understand and optimize complex distributed systems. Thanks to OpenTelemetry, Distributed Traces are now also available in cloud-native environments. But what is a span, and how is it different from a request or a trace? How would one analyze traces, and what advanced analytics use cases are possible when combining traces with logs, metrics, or topology data?
In this episode, Christoph Neumueller @Christoph_Neum, senior principal Product Architect at Dynatrace, walks us through the anatomy of a trace and how Dynatrace unleashes its power by connecting all signals of observability and making them queryable through DQL (Dynatrace Query Language).
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📖 Chapters 📖
00:00 - Introduction
01:30 - The Anatomy of a Trace
03:45 - Analyzing an individual Trace in Dynatrace
06:28 - Understanding Span Types
08:19 - Query Example on Requests
10:05 - Query Example on Database Calls
11:10 - Analyzing Spans and Traces in Dynatrace
14:15 - Analyzing Spans using DQL (Dynatrace Query Language)
17:58 - Extracting Timeseries from Traces using DQL
22:30 - Connecting Logs with Traces using DQL
27:37 - Connecting Traces with Topology using DQL
31:58 - Wrap Up
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🔗 Additional Links
Visit the Traces Notebook on the Dynatrace Playground
Watch our previous video on Trace Pattern Analytics
Try out Dynatrace with a free trial
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