Trace Flow Map
Trace Flow Map
An interactive visualization that allows engineers to efficiently analyze vast amounts of trace data to enable them to quickly identify issues, understand dependencies, and pinpoint failures in the system.
What is it?
Imagine a scenario similar to the 2024 Crowdstrike Incident, where a company with an extensive infrastructure and millions of microservices experiences an outage. Without a way to visualize and interpret the trace data being ingested, diagnosing the root cause before billions of dollars in operating revenue lost is virtually impossible. This trace flow map is that visualization.
Why it matters
The Dynamic Flow Map revolutionizes this process by visualizing all ingested trace data and highlighting correlated spikes in latency and errors.
This enables engineers to quickly identify problematic services across their ecosystem. The map also generates a representative set of traces, helping pinpoint the exact location in the transaction flow where failures occur, enabling teams to swiftly implement a fix.
Task
Visualizing and Diagnosing Complex Trace Data
