Distributed Tracing

Latest Dynatrace

The latest Dynatrace experience for distributed tracing provides a unified and comprehensive view of your environment trace data for all trace data sources. You can monitor and troubleshoot errors and performance issues in complex distributed software systems.

Prerequisites

Use cases

  • Understand the root cause and prevent failures in your environment.
  • Identify exceptions and performance issues, such as slow response times.
  • Split and group data by any key-value pair detected in your environment, such as versions and endpoints.
  • Drill down to the single trace information.

Overview

Discover the functionalities of the new Distributed Tracing Distributed Tracing app.

Configure user access

Set up and manage permissions for Distributed Tracing powered by Grail.

Limits

Reference limits of the Distributed Tracing app.

Frequently asked questions

The new tracing experience is rolled out in stages to extend access to Dynatrace SaaS DPS customers until March 2025. The availability timing depends on the geographic region and the overall trace volume of your account. For more information, reach out to your Customer Success Manager.

Yes. Once you start analyzing traces in the Distributed Tracing app, you can continue to use Distributed Traces Classic side by side.

DPS FullStack and/or Custom Traces Classic. No additional costs apply when you're using the new Distributed Tracing app.

Yes. Go to Distributed Tracing Distributed Tracing and select Show facets > Reset to default.

Update to the latest version of OneAgent.

  • Make sure you have the latest version of OneAgent.
  • Make sure the OneAgent feature Forward Tag 4 trace context extension is on; this ensures OneAgent-captured traces are compatible with the W3C trace context standard.
  1. Go to Distributed Tracing Distributed Tracing.
  2. In the facet list, enter span source and select the source you're interested in.

Not yet.