Resources

You can read a trace on your own. Where you go from here depends on what you want to do with that skill.

Continue learning

Pick the path that matches your goal:

• Use Traces Drilldown to identify high latency service requests: Put trace reading to work investigating your own traces in Grafana Cloud.
• Send traces to Grafana Cloud using Alloy: Get your own traces flowing, from instrumenting your application to sending spans with Alloy.
• Visualize traces in a Grafana Cloud dashboard: Build dashboards from your traces and start writing TraceQL.

Documentation

• Introduction to tracing: Revisit traces, spans, and the pipeline.
• Trace structure: A closer look at spans, nesting, and attributes.
• Traces Drilldown: The queryless way to explore your traces.
• TraceQL cookbook: Ready-to-use TraceQL query examples for when you’re ready for precision.

Community

• Grafana Community Forums: Ask questions and share what you’re building.
• Grafana Slack: Join the conversation with other Grafana users.