Use Traces Drilldown to identify high latency service requests
Welcome to the Grafana Labs learning journey that shows you how to use Traces Drilldown to help you identify the root cause of latency in service requests.
Traces Drilldown is a seamless experience for exploring distributed traces, offering a fast and intuitive way to analyze trace data in Grafana Cloud. Quickly uncover relationships between traces and identify potential bottlenecks or issues in your system’s performance without needing to write complex queries.
The image below displays the Traces Drilldown user interface.
Here’s what to expect
When you complete this journey, you’ll be able to:
- Navigate to Traces Drilldown and view the distribution of trace span durations
- Identify and review the details of the slowest traces
- View the details of a trace span to identify the root cause of latency
Troubleshooting
If you get stuck, we’ve got your back! Where appropriate, troubleshooting information is just a click away.
More to explore
We understand you might want to explore other capabilities not strictly on this path. We’ll provide you opportunities where it makes sense.
Before you begin
Before you use Metrics Drilldown, ensure that you have:
- A Grafana Cloud account. To create an account, refer to Grafana Cloud.
- An instrumented application sending traces to Grafana Cloud.
- A Grafana stack in Grafana Cloud with a configured Tempo data source.