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canonical: "https://www.softatlas.io/categories/developer-engineering/observability-monitoring/distributed-tracing"
name: "Distributed Tracing"
path: "Developer & Engineering / Observability & Monitoring / Distributed Tracing"
tool_count: 4
total_tool_count: 4
updated: "2026-07-20"
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# Distributed Tracing

Trace requests through software systems to identify performance bottlenecks.

## Tools in this category

No tool in this category has 5 or more published reviews yet, so this list is ranked by adoption, the number of teams using each tool, not by rating. A rating is shown where one exists, but only as context, never as the ranking key, a single review is not enough to trust for a "best tool" verdict.

1. [Datadog](/datadog.md) , not yet rated on Atlas, 9 teams
2. [Honeycomb](/honeycomb.md) , not yet rated on Atlas, 0 teams
3. [New Relic](/new-relic.md) , not yet rated on Atlas, 0 teams
4. [SUSE](/suse.md) , not yet rated on Atlas, 0 teams

Source: https://www.softatlas.io/categories/developer-engineering/observability-monitoring/distributed-tracing