Traces are a powerful tool to understand the flow of requests through your services. Metoro provides a centralized location to view and query traces.

The trace view

In structure, it's very similar to logs, trace attributes are indexed and searchable.

Automatic Tracing

Metoro leverages eBPF to provide single span tracing for all requests in your cluster. This means that you don't need to instrument your code to get tracing data. The tracing data is collected at the network layer and is used to generate spans for each request. This means that all requests in the cluster have an associated trace and span.

eBPF traces are top level spans only, they do not provide full distributed tracing. Metoro is working on adding full distributed tracing support via auto instrumentation.

Manual Tracing

Manual tracing support is coming soon, applications will be able to post their spans to localhost and Metoro will collect them and combine the results with the eBPF traces to give more detailed tracing information where available.