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Distributed Traces

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Distributed tracing is an essential monitoring, debugging, and optimizing tool for distributed software architectures. By visualizing how different services are connected and how your requests travel through various tiers of an application, it helps teams to quickly understand the performance of each microservice.

Concepts for Distributed Traces

Learn more about distributed tracing core concepts and terminology.

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Span and trace context propagation in Distributed Traces

Understand span and trace context propagation in Dynatrace and how to set them up.

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Get started with Distributed Traces

Get started with distributed trace analysis in Dynatrace.

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