How to view your spans & traces?

Jaeger is a powerful distributed tracing tool system that helps developers monitor and troubleshoot complex, microservices-based architectures. This article will show how to utilize Jaeger with Logit.io and how to view your spans and traces.

Working with your APM Stack/Jaeger

To locate your APM stack in Logit.io, from the initial dashboard scroll down, until you reach the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) section (see image below). Here you can view your entire APM stack.

Within this section of your dashboard, you will find Jaeger under the heading Services. To launch Jaeger, select the Launch link next to Jaeger, this will take you to Jaeger UI as shown below.

Once you've accumulated a few traces in Jaeger, you can easily inspect and analyze them within Jaeger's UI. ensure your date range, located on the right side of Jaeger, aligns with the time you captured the traces.

Jaeger is designed to give you a tailored experience in visualizing traces and spans. Leverage the compare tab to view insightful graphs that highlight your application's performance.

This allows you to focus on key metrics and discard unnecessary noise. For instance, you might want to monitor the end-to-end latency of your services to identify any potential bottlenecks.