Finding the root cause of performance issues in microservices architectures just got significantly easier. Sematext Tracing gives you end-to-end visibility across your distributed systems, helping you quickly identify bottlenecks, understand error propagation, and optimize critical user journeys.

What You Can Do Now

Optimize resources and reduce costs – Find your slowest services and bottlenecks to see where you’re over-provisioned. Once you optimize these performance issues, you can right-size your infrastructure, reduce resource allocation, and cut unnecessary cloud spend.

Track requests across your entire stack – Follow any request as it travels through multiple services, databases, and infrastructure components. See exactly where time is spent and which service is causing delays.

Use industry-standard OpenTelemetry – No vendor lock-in. Built on OpenTelemetry (OTel), you can use auto-instrumentation (in other words: no need to modify your application’s source code) for popular frameworks or leverage SDKs for Java, Python, Node.js, Go, .NET, Ruby, PHP, and more. Already using OpenTelemetry? Just point your OTLP exporter to the Sematext Agent endpoint – see the SDK docs for details.

Find issues faster with intelligent search – Filter traces by service, operation, duration, response status, or custom attributes. The Traces Explorer lets you drill down to the exact trace that shows the problem, complete with detailed spans and timing information.

Get alerted before users complain – Set alerts on latency percentiles (P50, P95, P99), error rates, or request rates. Connect alerts to Slack, email, or your existing notification channels.

Understand database performance – Identify slow queries, connection issues, and inefficient database operations that impact your application performance. See query execution times and their impact on overall request latency.

Getting Started

Sematext Tracing works with your existing Sematext setup. Simply:

1. Create a Tracing App in Sematext Cloud
2. Add the OpenTelemetry SDK to your application (auto-instrumentation available) if you are not already using OTel
3. Configure Sematext Agent with OTLP receiver enabled
4. Start seeing traces immediately in your Tracing App

If you’re already using OpenTelemetry, the migration is straightforward – just point your OTLP exporter to the Sematext Agent and you’re ready to go.

What’s Coming Next

We’re expanding our OpenTelemetry support to deliver complete observability in one platform. Soon you’ll be able to create OTel Logs Apps and OTel Monitoring Apps in Sematext, allowing you to correlate traces with metrics and logs for the full picture of any incident. Everything in one unified platform, using the same industry-standard protocol.

Ready to see your distributed systems in action? Create your first Tracing App or check out the documentation to learn more.