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slug: /apm/traces
title: Traces
description: Monitor your application's performance with Sumo Logic trace analytics. Learn how to utilize your tracing data, including dashboards, service maps, spans, and queries.
canonical: https://www.sumologic.com/help/docs/apm/traces/
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Monitoring apps and microservices with Sumo Logic Traces provides transactional intelligence for distributed workflows, by combining telemetry from traces, logs, and metrics in the context of real-time automatically tracked application topology.

This guide provides information to work with your tracing data.


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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/apm/traces/quickstart')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/traces.png')} alt="Traces icon" width="30"/><h4>Quickstart</h4></a>
  <p>Get up and running quickly with and explore how your application is behaving with Trace analytics.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/apm/traces/get-started-transaction-tracing/')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/traces.png')} alt="Traces icon" width="30"/><h4>Setup and Configuration</h4></a>
  <p>Learn how to send traces to Sumo Logic.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/apm/traces/view-and-investigate-traces')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/traces.png')} alt="Traces icon" width="30"/><h4>View and Investigate Traces</h4></a>
  <p>Learn how to search and investigate your traces, trace views, and trace events.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/apm/traces/tracing-dashboards')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/traces.png')} alt="Traces icon" width="30"/><h4>Application Service APM and Tracing Dashboards</h4></a>
  <p>Explore and create Tracing dashboards, install apps, and more.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/apm/traces/search-query-language-support-for-traces')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/traces.png')} alt="Traces icon" width="30"/><h4>Search Query Language Support for Traces</h4></a>
  <p>Use our Search Query Language to gain valuable insight into your traces.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/apm/traces/tracing-ingest')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/traces.png')} alt="Traces icon" width="30"/><h4>Troubleshoot Ingest</h4></a>
  <p>Use tracing to troubleshoot problems with data ingest.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/apm/traces/advanced-configuration')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/traces.png')} alt="Traces icon" width="30"/><h4>Advanced Configuration</h4></a>
  <p>Learn how to link logs and traces, modify span attributes, and mask sensitive site information.</p>
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