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Explore Traces
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Explore Traces is currently in public preview. Grafana Labs offers limited support, and breaking changes might occur prior to the feature being made generally available.
Distributed traces provide a way to monitor applications by tracking requests across services. Traces record the details of a request to help understand why an issue is or was happening.
Explore Traces helps you visualize insights from your Tempo traces data. Using the app, you can:
- Use Rate, Errors, and Duration (RED) metrics derived from traces to investigate issues
- Uncover related issues and monitor changes over time
- Browse automatic visualizations of your data based on its characteristics
- Do all of this without writing TraceQL queries
To learn more, read:
- From multi-line queries to no-code investigations: meeting Grafana users where they are
- A queryless experience for exploring metrics, logs, traces, and profiles: Introducing the Explore apps suite for Grafana.
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Learn the concepts you need to use tracing.
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How do you use tracing data to investigate an issue? Start here.
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Access or install Explore Traces.
Investigate trends and spikes
Use your tracing data to identify issues and determine the root cause.
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