Tracepoints

With tracepoints you can get more control over the trace sampling that Tideways uses to filter up to your traces / minute license limit. This allows you to collect a lot more traces of the parts in your project that you are currently interested in.

Examples of Tracepoint rules that you could run on your project include:

  • Keeping all traces of a specific URL that is slow

  • Keeping all error traces with an HTTP 500 status code on a specific endpoint

  • Keeping all traces of a customer’s subdomain, "customer.myproduct.com"

Select a transactions and optionally add more filter criteria based on the request, and Tideways will keep traces matching the Tracepoint criteria with higher preference.

You can even enable callgraph profiling through a tracepoint.

The following video gives a short introduction to Tracepoints and how they work:

Setting a Tracepoint with Additional Filters

To use Tracepoints, drill down into a transaction of your project, then click Boost Traces. Then, fill out and submit the "Configure Tracepoint to Boost Traces" form with your filter criteria and notification preferences.

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Click the Traces entry in the main navigation on top to see a list of all active and recently completed traces of your project:

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You can also send notification summaries via email or Slack, when a trace is completed, so that you can immediately dive into the data:

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