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Investigate trends and spikes

Grafana Traces Drilldown provides powerful tools that help you identify and analyze problems in your applications and services.

Using these steps, you can use the tracing data to investigate issues.

1. Select Root spans or All spans to look at either the first span in a trace (the root span) or all span data.
2. Choose the metric you want to use: rates, errors, or duration.
3. Analyze data using Breakdown, Comparison, Service structure (available for rate), Root cause errors (available for errors), Root cause latency (available for duration), and Traces tabs.
4. Add filters to refine the view of your data.

You can use these steps in any order and move between them as many times as needed. Depending on what you find, you may start with root spans, delve into error data, and then select All spans to access all of the tracing data.

Give it a try using Grafana Play

With Grafana Play, you can explore and see how it works, learning from practical examples to accelerate your development. This feature can be seen on the Grafana Play site.

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