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.