DDx for Traces
Differential Diagnosis (DDx) for Traces
DDx for Traces empowers every team member to troubleshoot like an expert - regardless of their level of system knowledge or tracing expertise.
How It Works
Everyone Can Now Troubleshoot with Traces – No Expertise Required
Modern systems make it hard to spot what changed or what’s causing slowness. DDx for Traces removes the guesswork by automatically analyzing all spans and attributes related to a trace—highlighting what’s correlated with a performance issue and what’s not. With a guided, queryless workflow, anyone on the team can follow a clear path from symptom to cause and validate hypotheses quickly —no system deep-dive or prior context needed.
Key Benefits
- Find what changed
- Guided Troubleshooting
- Works for Everyone
Unexpected errors? Increased Latency? DDx it!
With one-click, DDx analyzes all relevant spans and span attributes to show you what changed across your services - and what didn’t.
Quickly Find What’s Slow or Broken
Easily generate and test hypotheses about what changed. Quickly understand why your system is struggling - even though it was fine just a few minutes before.
Tracing shouldn’t be just for experts
Whether you’re new to tracing or a senior engineer, DDx streamlines the investigation process—removing bottlenecks, enabling self-service debugging, and improving team-wide productivity.
Key Features
One-Click Correlation Analysis
When a suspicious trend or pattern is observed, DDx automatically analyzes all spans and span dimensions, highlighting key dimensions that are likely contributing to the issue.
Intuitive, Insight-Driven UI
The point-and-click, queryless workflow helps you to rapidly test hypotheses and identify the root cause of issues faster - without relying on tribal knowledge.
Customizable investigations
Set up “Top Tags” for default DDx analysis or select individual tags to tailor your analysis based on the current issue.
Available Out-Of-The-Box
All Chronosphere Distributed Tracing customers can immediately start using DDx - no configuration or setup is required.
DDx For Traces Demo
DDx Resources
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