If you're building or maintaining modern applications, you've likely come across these three terms.

While they all help you understand what's going on under the hood, they play very different roles.

Here's a quick breakdown:

🔍 Traces

- Show the journey of a single request through a distributed system

- Great for pinpointing bottlenecks and debugging latency issues

- Think of it as a GPS route for your API calls 🗺️

📄 Logs

- Record discrete events with contextual information

- Ideal for deep dives and forensic analysis after something breaks

- Structured or unstructured text entries that tell stories 📘

📊 Metrics

- Numeric values that represent system health over time

- Great for dashboards, alerts, and trends

- Tell you how often or how much something happens 📈

🎯 Together, they give a 360° view of system behavior—crucial for monitoring, debugging, and improving performance.

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