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• kubernetes
• software_engineering created: ‘2026-05-04 14:40’ last_modified: ‘2026-05-04 14:40:00’ status: evergreen confidence: fact

Jaeger visualizes request spans across distributed systems

The Jaeger UI renders trace data as a Gantt chart, showing exactly how much time a request spent in the database versus the API. It visually demonstrates that Bottlenecks determine the throughput of a system.¹

Footnotes

1. Jaeger Tracing UI and Architecture. ↩