Query distributed trace data

You can query your distributed tracing data in several ways:

• The search bar at top of the distributed tracing UI
• NRQL query
• NerdGraph GraphiQL explorer

To learn about trace structure, see How distributed tracing works.

Example NRQL queries

Some example NRQL queries:

Datastore time percentile for an app

SELECT percentile(duration, 50, 95) FROM Span WHERE category = 'datastore' 
and appName = 'YOUR_APP_NAME' SINCE 4 hours ago TIMESERIES 1 minute

Datastore query time for an app, faceted by host

SELECT average(duration) FROM Span WHERE appName = 'YOUR_APP_NAME' 
and category = 'datastore' FACET host TIMESERIES 1 minute

Average duration for a method of a service, faceted by host

SELECT average(duration) FROM Span WHERE appName = 'YOUR_APP_NAME'
and name = 'FUNCTION_NAME' FACET host TIMESERIES 1 minute

Histogram of external services called by a service, faceted by external URI

SELECT histogram(duration, 10, 60) FROM Span WHERE category = 'http'
and appName = 'YOUR_APP_NAME' FACET `http.url` SINCE 4 hours ago

Average duration for external calls across all applications

SELECT average(duration) FROM Span WHERE category = 'http'
SINCE 4 hours ago FACET `http.url` TIMESERIES 1 minute

Example NerdGraph queries

You can also use NerdGraph to query your trace data using the API. For more information, see the NerdGraph distributed tracing data query examples.

Can't find data?

Having trouble finding data when querying? See Troubleshooting: missing data.

For more help