cloud trace

Author: Mathieu Benoit

content/monitoring-and-audit/trace-apps.md

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+---
+title: "Trace apps"
+weight: 5
+description: "Duration: 5 min | Persona: Apps Operator"
+tags: ["asm", "apps-operator", "monitoring"]
+---
+![Apps Operator](/images/apps-operator.png)
+_{{< param description >}}_
+
+In this section, you will trace your apps in order to follow a request through your Service Mesh, observe the network calls and profile your system end to end.
+
+Initialize variables:
+```Bash
+WORK_DIR=~/
+source ${WORK_DIR}acm-workshop-variables.sh
+```
+
+In the Google Cloud console, navigate to _Trace_ service. Click on the link displayed by the command below:
+```Bash
+echo -e "https://console.cloud.google.com/traces/list?project=${TENANT_PROJECT_ID}"
+```
+
+Select one of the Online Boutique's `frontend` app's requests:
+![Anthos Service Mesh Monitoring overview](/images/cloud-trace.png)
+
+From there you will have access to a lot more details about the different calls, trace logs, etc.