# What is distributed tracing?

DevFeed: [What is distributed tracing?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-is-distributed-tracing-17853.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://encore.dev/blog/tracing-guide>)

Author: Ivan Cernja

Published: 2026-05-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Encore Updates](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/encore-updates.md>)

Topics: [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tracing.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [debug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debug.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>)

Tags: [auth](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/auth.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debugging.md>), [dependency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependency.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [guide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guide.md>), [instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instrumentation.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tracing.md>)

## AI overview

An interactive guide explains how distributed traces help debug backend issues by showing request operations, timings, dependencies, database queries, asynchronous message paths, and user-specific failures.

## Source excerpt

An interactive guide to debugging real backend issues