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Cloud Trace

Distributed tracing.

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Overview

Cloud Trace collects OpenTelemetry spans across services for latency analysis.

When to use it

  • Diagnose tail latency
  • Correlate e2e tests with backend spans

Setup

  1. Instrument app with OpenTelemetry SDK exporting OTLP to Trace.
  2. View traces in Console.

How to use

Search

Filter by service + http.url to find slow checkout calls.

QA use cases

  • Tag e2e test runs with traceparent header to view full backend trace per failing test.