Leverage Distributed Tracing
to Shine the Observability Light Inside Your Testing Black Box
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.
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.
Learn more about Synthetic Monitoring ...
Tracetest works with your existing tests, adding deeper testability and visibility to test results by leveraging your existing tracing solution. See integrations.