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Distributed tracing
Trace requests across services, dependencies and distributed application components.
5 products evaluated5 supported0 partial / conditional0 not yet verified0 not supportedAvg evidence confidence 99%
Product support comparison
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| Product | Status | Confidence | Implementation | Evidence | Limitations / notes | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DA Datadog APM Datadog | Supported | 99% | Not recorded | 2 sources | Datadog APM provides end-to-end trace exploration across distributed services. | Sep 15, 2026 |
DA Dynatrace Application Observability Dynatrace | Supported | 99% | Not recorded | 2 sources | Dynatrace Distributed Tracing follows requests across services and components. | Sep 15, 2026 |
EA Elastic APM Elastic | Supported | 99% | Not recorded | 2 sources | Elastic APM distributed tracing tracks a request across multiple distributed services and components. | Sep 15, 2026 |
NR New Relic APM 360 New Relic | Supported | 99% | Not recorded | 2 sources | New Relic distributed tracing tracks requests and spans across distributed services. | Sep 15, 2026 |
SA Splunk APM Splunk | Supported | 99% | Not recorded | 1 source | Splunk APM monitors distributed applications using traces composed of spans. | Sep 15, 2026 |
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