Service Map and Statistics for Traces

The service map of a checkout trace. The checkout service is selected, and the side panel lists who called it and every service it called. — └ The service map of a checkout trace

Service Map and Statistics views are now available for Traces in Axiom.

While the traditional Waterfall view presents a complete view of every span of a trace, it is not always the best way to represent large traces. These new views allow you to quickly understand the shape of a trace, and see aggregated information about performance and errors.

See how a request moved through your system

The service map shows every service a trace passed through and every call between them.

Databases, queues, and external hosts appear too, even when they aren't instrumented: Axiom finds them in the client spans of the services that call them.

Find where the time went

The statistics view of a trace. A bar shows each service's share of the critical path, and the table groups spans by service and span name. — └ The statistics view of the same trace.

The statistics view sums up a trace in one table. Group spans by service, span name, span kind, or status, then by a second field, and compare counts, errors, total and average duration, and self time. Select a row to see its spans and correlate back to the waterfall.