Community Session: Optimize your Website with Tracing

hey everyone welcome to this week's Versell community live session I'm Amy I'm on the community team here at Verscell and I'm going to be your moderator for today's session Um if you don't see the chat make sure that you're signed in and click going on the event details Or if you're tuning in from X make sure that you join us at community.vercell.com/events and then you can find us and uh click going on

the events U before we begin I want to remind everyone of our community code of conduct You can find that link up in the sitenav and down in the footer and let's just continue to keep it a positive and respectful environment for everybody so we can keep doing these events Um if you're comfortable sharing in the chat where you're listening from let us know We'd love to see where everyone's tuning in from Um and feel free to share any comments or questions that you have uh during the session We'll share those all at the end and kind of discuss them with

the group Uh if there's uh anything else just make sure that you comment and bring it up with us Um with that all out of the way uh let me introduce Verselians Sam Witz and Andrew who are here to talk about session tracing Hey everybody Thanks Amy Hey everyone Uh we are some of the team behind session tracing at Verscell Um this was truly a

cross team effort Uh but to introduce myself my name is Sam I'm a product manager at Verscell and I work on the dashboard and toolbar Um and I was the product manager on this session tracing effort Uh Gadik do you want to intro yourself next sure Thanks Sam I'm Andrew Gadzik I'm a software engineer at Verscell one of the primary engineers working on tracing Nice to meet everyone Witz And I'm Witz Uh I was the front-end engineer and the designer for the tracing project and more broadly just another software engineer here at

Verscell Great All right I've got some content for you all some slides So I'm going to go ahead and share and we will talk through uh session tracing the feature Um as well as start off with a little intro on what tracing is Um and we'll talk about why we built session tracing at Verscell the story behind it and give you a demo of what it looks like to debug with session tracing So to start

off Gadzik um will you run us through kind of tracing 101 what is tracing yeah absolutely So for those that don't know what tracing is tracing just allows us to track a single request as it moves through various components of a distributed system It provides visibility into how much time is spent in total Um yeah how tracing works trace is just cons um consists of multiple spans organized in a parent child relationships Each span represents a specific operation Uh it captures its

duration any errors that might have occurred and any relevant custom attributes that you'd like to track And why does it matter um tracing quickly point pinpoints performance bottlenecks and errors significantly reducing trouble troubleshooting time Tracing provides visibility into interactions between different services making it easier to diagnose complex systemwide issues and tracing highlights

areas for optimization allowing developers to efficiently enhance overall system performance Sweet Thank you Yeah So tracing as a concept uh some of you know this some of you might not but tracing is a a type of data that is commonly used for observability um by people who build on the web Um session tracing is Versel's first tracing related um product offering And so I'm going to talk a little bit about what Verscell sessions