This document introduces Hypertrace, a distributed tracing platform for microservices and APIs. It discusses distributed tracing concepts, the origin and goals of Hypertrace, key Hypertrace concepts like spans and traces, Hypertrace's architecture, and how to query data from Hypertrace. The presentation concludes with a demo and information on how to check out Hypertrace further.

1. Distributed Tracing Platform for Microservices and APIs

2. Hello!
I am Buchi Reddy
◎ Platform Lead @Traceable (traceable.ai)
◎ Previously, Director of Engineering @AppDynamics,
Neptune.io, & D. E. Shaw (High Frequency Trading)
◎ Built monitoring and tracing SaaS platforms
@buchireddy
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3. Agenda
◎ Distributed tracing concepts
◎ Origin of Hypertrace
◎ Why Hypertrace?
◎ Hypertrace concepts
◎ Architecture
◎ Querying from Hypertrace
◎ Demo
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4. Distributed Tracing concepts
● Span
● Trace
● Trace context

5. Origin of Hypertrace
◎ Traceable needed a tracing platform, which can:
○ Observe microservices
○ Monitor all APIs
○ Slice & dice traces
○ Real-time visibility
○ Scale
◎ Our AppSec product is built on Hypertrace
◎ Thought others would benefit from it too
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6. Why Hypertrace?
Topology
View the topology of all services
and backends in real-time.
Scalable for 100s of them.
Dashboards
Pre-canned dashboards for
Services, APIs and Backends
Extensibility
Write your own enrichers to enrich
trace data for your business needs
and create views around your
business needs.
Interoperable
Works OOB with all open source
tracing libs like Zipkin, OTel,
Jaeger.
GraphQL APIs
Traces, spans and entities exposed
through GraphQL APIs. Build the
next creative use case
API & Trace Analytics
Powerful slice & dice of all the data
powered by Apache Pinot
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7. Hypertrace Concepts
● Span
● Trace
● Endpoint Trace

8. Hypertrace Concepts
● Service
● API
● Backend
● Explorer

9. Hypertrace Concepts
● Service
● API
● Backend
● Explorer

10. Hypertrace Concepts
● Attributes
● Latency
● Error
● Calls/min

11. Hypertrace Explorer

12. Architecture

13. Extensible Enrichment & Flexible Query Layer
● Custom enrichers for app specific enrichment
● Designed to form new entities by grouping attributes
● GraphQL API
● Explorer capabilities are almost like SQL for your data

14. Plays well with ecosystem
Ingest traces from:

15. Easy to deploy and operate
● Docker Compose
● Helm based horizontally scalable setup for production
Get started at: docs.hypertrace.org/getting-started
Deploy easily with

16. Demo time

17. Check out Hypertrace
● https://www.hypertrace.org/
● https://github.com/hypertrace/hypertrace
● https://docs.hypertrace.org/
● https://hypertrace.slack.com
● Twitter: @HypertraceOrg

18. Thanks!
Any questions?
Find me at:
@buchireddy
buchi@traceable.ai
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19. Credits
Special thanks to SlidesCarnival for the awesome
presentation template
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