Leverage Distributed Tracing
to Shine the Observability Light Inside Your Testing Black Box
Run Trace-based tests as Synthetic Monitors
Tracetest tests and test suites can be run as synthetic monitors.- Define how often to run the monitors, and what to do when one fails.
- Integrate with your favorite alerting system via webhooks.
- Verify the entire process, using the monitor to check the API response and/or behind the black box!
- Leverage tests you create in Dev / QA as synthetic monitors to verify your most important flows.
Generate a Trace Response
- Call your system via a test trigger to get the response and initiate the trace.
- Use existing Cypress, k6, Playwright or Postman tests, or specify the trigger via HTTP, gRPC, Kafka or more.
- OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, and Zipkin headers are automatically attached to the triggering requests.
- Tracetest's polling algorithm queries your existing tracing solution and gets the complete trace.
Tracetest Renders and Analyzes the Trace
- Visually render the associated trace results.
- Trace scoring finds problems with instrumentation, missing attributes and naming conventions.
- Identify potential security problems such as recording sensitive data, passwords, API key leaks, and more.
- Create custom rules and enforce instrumentation standards across teams.
Build Assertions Against Response and Trace Data
- Add assertions for status codes, business data, existence of spans, expected flow and performance.
- Assertions target one or multiple spans such as verifying all MySQL calls finish within 100ms.
- Snippet generator suggests the appropriate test for each service.
- Integration tests that would take days can be created in minutes.
Run Observability-Enabled Tests as part of CI/CD
- Run tests via Tracetest CLI in your existing CI/CD pipeline.
- Tests are expressed in a clean, concise YAML format, enabling source control processes.
- Enforce trace rules and rollback deployments if observability standards are not met.
- Failed tests have a completed trace attached facilitating speedy root cause analysis.
Tracetest works with your existing tests, adding deeper testability and visibility to test results by leveraging your existing tracing solution. See integrations.