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Analyzing trace data in Grafana

Analyzing trace data in Grafana

- [Instructor] As I said, it may take a bit until the data makes it from our Collector to Grafana and gets stored and analyzed there. So I kept voting for a while. Now let's see if this worked. So I'm going back into Grafana and there I'm clicking on the refresh button up here. You can also select the timeframe up here. So 30 minutes back is okay. I click on refresh and the data is there. If it isn't for you, wait another five minutes before proceeding. This list shows our services and so-called sparklines that represent duration and errors on these services. We see all of our services and in the end also an entry called voting. This is where Grafana tried to infer an application by using the service names that start with voting. We can ignore that in our case, but it may be handy if you have many names-based services. Let's look at the first cool feature. For that, I click on service map and you can see that Grafana really nicely created a map of our services and their communication…

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