--- title: How to use traces to avoid breaking changes | daily.dev description: Tracing is a valuable tool in software development that helps prevent issues when making changes by providing visibility into system behavior and performance.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-traces-to-avoid-breaking-changes-qojm1ensn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to use traces to avoid breaking changes | daily.dev og:description: Tracing is a valuable tool in software development that helps prevent issues when making changes by providing visibility into system behavior and performance.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-traces-to-avoid-breaking-changes-qojm1ensn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qojM1enSN.png og:image:alt: How to use traces to avoid breaking changes og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to use traces to avoid breaking changes **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 7 min read · 22 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Tracing is a valuable tool in software development that helps prevent issues when making changes by providing visibility into system behavior and performance. It involves monitoring and recording the flow of data or events as they move through a system. Tracing in a distributed system includes components such as tracer, span, context propagation, correlation ID, instrumentation, data store, and visualization and analysis tools. OpenTracing, OpenTelemetry, Zipkin, and Jaeger are widely used distributed tracing libraries. Digma is an observability tool that provides insights and feedback during development. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@sirajju** · 0 upvotes > Great article! Thanks for sharing 🙌 --- Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#distributed-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/distributed-systems), [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-traces-to-avoid-breaking-changes-qojm1ensn) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How to use traces to avoid breaking changes","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-traces-to-avoid-breaking-changes-qojm1ensn","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-traces-to-avoid-breaking-changes-qojm1ensn"},"datePublished":"2024-05-20T08:01:52.968Z","dateModified":"2024-11-16T02:18:22.166Z","description":"Tracing is a valuable tool in software development that helps prevent issues when making changes by providing visibility into system behavior and performance....","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2a3c2ca8481678b5c9178cd656700187?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2a3c2ca8481678b5c9178cd656700187?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Community Picks","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Community Picks","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1655817725/logos/community","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/community"},"commentCount":2,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-traces-to-avoid-breaking-changes-qojm1ensn","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":22},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}],"keywords":"architecture,distributed-systems,observability","timeRequired":"PT7M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Community Picks","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/community"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"How to use traces to avoid breaking changes"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-traces-to-avoid-breaking-changes-qojm1ensn","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Great article! Thanks for sharing 🙌","datePublished":"2026-03-06T05:21:48.841Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/qojM1enSN#c-LC4JXMiS9","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"sirajju","url":"https://daily.dev/sirajju","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--IbwvoTYq--/f_auto/v1772778404/avatars/avatar_giQfoBCN9hYxcvRVo3s95?_a=BAMAMiiu0"}}]} ```