# The new Trace view in Apollo Engine

DevFeed: [The new Trace view in Apollo Engine](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-new-trace-view-in-apollo-engine-23542.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.apollographql.com/blog/the-new-trace-view-in-apollo-engine-566b25bdfdb0>)

Author: Danielle Man

Published: 2017-10-31T23:26:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Apollo Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/apollo-blog.md>)

Topics: [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tracing.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [gateway](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gateway.md>)

Tags: [announcement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcement.md>), [apollo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apollo.md>), [gateway](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gateway.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [performance-metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance-metrics.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [render](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/render.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [trace](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/trace.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tracing.md>)

## AI overview

This article describes the new Trace view in Apollo Engine, a GraphQL gateway and successor to Apollo Optics. The updated view helps developers inspect query critical paths, distinguish resolver time from network, queueing, parsing, and validation time, and identify when resolver execution starts and ends.

## Source excerpt

Last week we announced our new GraphQL gateway product and successor to Apollo Optics, Apollo Engine. It has the essential GraphQL monitoring features like request tracing and performance metrics over time that Optics did, and adds new functionality like error reporting and whole query caching.