Traces Overview

Traces help you understand how requests flow across services, identify performance bottlenecks, and troubleshoot errors in distributed systems.

In this section

• Traces in OpenObserveConfigure tracing, correlate logs, and analyze performance in OpenObserve.
• Service GraphService Graph visualizes how services communicate as a real-time topology from distributed traces, with health colors, call edges, and inferred dependencies.
• Service CatalogService Catalog is a sortable per-service table built from distributed traces, summarizing request volume, error rate, and latency percentiles to rank health.
• Analyze TracesFind slow and failing requests with the critical path, RED insights, span percentiles, profile links, saved views, and drill-down.