What does distributed tracing in Dynatrace help to follow?

Distributed tracing in Dynatrace is designed to help follow transactions as they move through various components of an application, capturing and correlating data from all participating services. This capability allows you to see the complete path of user requests as they traverse through microservices, databases, and external APIs. By understanding how these transactions flow, you gain insights into performance bottlenecks, latency issues, and dependencies that may affect the end-user experience.

This feature is particularly beneficial for identifying where delays might occur in complex systems, which can involve multiple services working together to fulfill a request. By visualizing the flow of transactions across these services, developers and operators can troubleshoot issues more effectively and optimize the overall performance of their applications. In contrast, the other options, while valuable, do not encapsulate the comprehensive capability of distributed tracing like tracking transactions does.