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Cloud Trace is Google Cloud's distributed tracing service. It collects latency data from your applications and displays it in near real-time, helping you understand how requests propagate through your distributed system, identify performance bottlenecks, and diagnose latency issues. It is the GCP equivalent of AWS X-Ray or Azure Application Insights distributed tracing.
In a monolithic application, a single request is handled by one process, and profiling that process reveals where time is spent. In a distributed system — where a single user request may traverse an API gateway, multiple microservices, a cache, a database, and a message queue — understanding end-to-end latency requires distributed tracing.
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