Tracing for the Frontend to the Backend

Tracing for the Frontend to the Backend

Jul 29, 2021

Join Dustin Bailey (Solutions Engineer @Sentry) as he shows how developers can trace those pesky performance issues to poor-performing API calls & slow database queries across all your services, from the frontend to the backend.

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00:00 – Introductions
02:48 – What is Tracing? Light history and how Sentry helps
05:04 – Foundation of understanding Tracing: Trace, Transactions, Spans
08:16 – Use cases for Tracing
09:41 – Setting up Performance and Tracing (documentation walk-through)
16:16 – Quick Q/A session before Demo
26:18 – Demo: Tracing from the Frontend to the Backend
43:15 – Q/A