https://chronosphere.io/learn/what-is-distributed-tracing/ has been around for over a decade, and it arrived on the scene with great fanfare. This created workflow bottlenecks — and made it hard for casual users to understand just how beneficial distributed tracing can be.

For engineering organizations to realize the full potential of trace data, engineers have to use it.

Dashboards can provide the foundation to integrate distributed trace data across the entire organization instead of keeping it siloed, only to be used once in a great while.

With dashboards, engineers don’t have to learn an entirely new tracing tool, which means they can start using tracing data immediately.

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