--- title: Why exceptions matter: Elevating your distributed... description: Exception Analysis is a new feature in the Dynatrace Distributed Tracing app that helps developers spot, group, and investigate exceptions across full traces.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-exceptions-matter-elevating-your-distributed-tracing-investigations-6plhkgfee twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why exceptions matter: Elevating your distributed tracing investigations | daily.dev og:description: Exception Analysis is a new feature in the Dynatrace Distributed Tracing app that helps developers spot, group, and investigate exceptions across full traces.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-exceptions-matter-elevating-your-distributed-tracing-investigations-6plhkgfee og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6PlhKGFee.png og:image:alt: Why exceptions matter: Elevating your distributed tracing investigations 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. # Why exceptions matter: Elevating your distributed tracing investigations **[Dynatrace](https://daily.dev/sources/dynatrace)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Exception Analysis is a new feature in the Dynatrace Distributed Tracing app that helps developers spot, group, and investigate exceptions across full traces. It provides aggregated views of exceptions over time, readable stack traces, and visual markers on problematic spans. The feature supports both OpenTelemetry and OneAgent collection, enabling teams to proactively identify deprecated functions, repeated errors, and root causes before they escalate into outages. A walkthrough demo shows how to go from noticing an anomaly to pinpointing a PHP deprecated-function exception occurring 1,000 times per hour on a specific endpoint. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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