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<p>Elastic APM supports distributed tracing.
Distributed tracing enables you to analyze performance throughout your microservices architecture all in one view.
This is accomplished by tracing all of the requests - from the initial web request to your front-end service - to queries made to your back-end services.
This makes finding possible bottlenecks throughout your application much easier and faster.
Best of all, there&#8217;s no additional configuration needed for distributed tracing, just ensure you&#8217;re using the latest version of the applicable <a href="/guide/en/apm/agent/index.html" class="ulink" target="_top">agent</a>.</p>
<p>The APM UI in Kibana also supports distributed tracing.
The Timeline visualization has been redesigned to show all of the transactions from individual services that are connected in a trace:</p>
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<p>As we&#8217;re still working on enhancing the distributed tracing experience in the UI,
we&#8217;re flagging the feature as beta in the UI.</p>
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