APM & Distributed Tracing in SigNoz gives you end-to-end visibility into your application's health and request flow. Monitor service-level RED metrics (Rate, Errors, Duration) and trace individual requests as they travel across microservices.
Key capabilities
- APM/Services: Monitor every service with latency percentiles, error rates, requests per second, and Apdex scores, with database call and external call breakdowns.
- Trace Explorer: Search and filter traces by service, operation, duration, or any span attribute.
- Distributed tracing: Follow a single request across all microservices with a flamegraph view that shows every span, its duration, and parent-child relationships.
- Trace funnels: Analyze how requests flow through a sequence of services or spans and identify drop-off points.
- Service map: Visualize dependencies between services and spot latency or error hot-spots across your architecture.
Get started
- Send traces to SigNoz — Instrument your services with OpenTelemetry.
- APM metrics from traces — Understand how SigNoz derives RED metrics from trace data automatically.
Work with APM & Tracing
- View Services — RED metrics, Apdex, and per-service performance overview.
- Database Calls — Latency and call counts for database operations.
- External Calls — Outbound HTTP and gRPC call metrics.
- Trace Explorer — Search and filter individual traces by service, operation, duration, or attributes.
- Trace Details — Flamegraph view for a single trace with span-level attributes and events.
- Service Map — Visualize service dependencies and error hot-spots.
- Trace Funnels — Analyze request flow across a sequence of services.
Concepts and reference
- Querying Traces — Query traces using Query Builder, Trace Matching, and ClickHouse SQL.
- APM Metrics, Dashboards & Alerts — Build custom dashboards and alerts from APM data.
- Long Term Storage — Configure hot and cold storage tiers for traces.
- Using Traces API — Query traces programmatically via the API.
- Control Traces Volume — Drop unwanted spans to reduce costs.
- Correlate Traces & Logs — Link traces with logs for unified debugging.
Related modules
- Logs Management — Correlate traces with logs.
- Metrics — Explore metrics alongside trace data.
- Dashboards — Build custom views from APM data.
- Alerts — Alert on latency, error rate, or Apdex.
