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Manage facets in Distributed Tracing app

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This article contains information on how to manage your facets to correspond to your preferred filtering in the Distributed tracing app.

Before you begin

Prerequisites
  • Set up Grail permissions for Distributed Tracing.

Manage all facets

To manage which facets of your environment are displayed

  1. Go to Distributed Tracing Distributed Tracing > Explorer.
  2. Select Show facets.
  3. Select or deselect items from the predefined categories.
    • Check the category box to select or deselect all facets in the category.
    • Select to view the facets in a category and select or deselect them.
  4. Select Save.

Revert to default settings

If you have previously modified the facets, to revert to the default settings for facets in your environment

  1. Go to Distributed Tracing Distributed Tracing > Explorer.
  2. Select Show facets.
  3. Select Reset facet to default.
  4. Select Confirm reset?

Filter with primary Grail tags

You can enrich spans at ingest with primary Grail tags and query them via primary_tags.* fields. In Distributed Tracing Distributed Tracing, primary Grail tags are available as facets and in the filter field, so you can filter traces by tag key-value pairs without writing DQL queries.

To filter traces using primary Grail tags:

  1. Go to Distributed Tracing Distributed Tracing > Explorer.
  2. In the Facets panel, expand the Primary tags facet group.
  3. Select one or more tag values.

The filter field is updated with the corresponding primary_tags.* filter, and the trace list shows only matching traces.

Alternatively, enter primary_tags in the filter field to see autosuggestions for primary Grail tag keys.

Edit a facet

  1. Go to Distributed Tracing Distributed Tracing > Explorer.
  2. Expand a facet category and select the facet you want to edit.
  3. Select next to the facet's name and then Edit facet.
  4. Make the desired changes and select Save.

Hide a facet

To hide a facet from the list

  1. Go to Distributed Tracing Distributed Tracing > Explorer.
  2. Expand a facet category and select the facet you want to hide.
  3. Select next to the facet's name and then Hide facet.

Group facets

To group your records by attributes

  1. Go to Distributed Tracing Distributed Tracing > Explorer.
  2. Expand a facet category and select the facet you want to use for grouping.
  3. Select next to the facet's name and then Group by.

The table is updated with the selected attribute(s). To change the filter selection, select Group by: field and add or remove any attribute from the list. If you remove all attributes, the table resorts to its default view.

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