# 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 for Traces Demo Video](/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/DDx-for-Traces-Demo.mp4)

## DDx Resources

-  Troubleshoot microservices issues faster with Differential Diagnosis (DDx) for Traces [Learn more](/content/learn/troubleshoot-faster-with-ddx/index.html)  
-  Chronosphere announces DDx for Metrics: Guided troubleshooting without the guesswork [Learn more](/content/learn/ddx-for-metrics-guided-troubleshooting/index.html)  
-  Troubleshooting Microservices with Julia Blase [Listen now](/content/resource/troubleshooting-microservices-with-julia-blase/index.html)

### Explore the Power of DDx

[Request a Demo](/content/request-a-demo/index.html)