Tracing - Introduction

What is Mackerel's tracing feature?

Mackerel's tracing feature allows you to discover and resolve issues that cause a degraded user experience, such as errors and slow performance.

Mackerel's tracing feature retains traces for 14 days.

What can you do with Mackerel's tracing feature?

Here is an overview of the main features of Mackerel's tracing feature.

Trace management

On the trace list screen, you can view the latency distribution over time and the number of traces.

Trace list screen

On the trace details screen, you can view the time of occurrence and span details.

Trace details screen

Issue management

Mackerel's tracing feature automatically detects requests where errors occurred and registers them as issues.

Issue list screen

On the issue details screen, you can view stack traces and span details.

Issue details screen

For more details on specific features, please refer to the following page:

mackerel.io