OpenTelemetry
What is Distributed Tracing? How it Works and Best Practices
Learn how distributed tracing works, best practices, major challenges, and explore what are the best distributed tracing platforms in 2025.
August 18, 2025
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Integrate with any data source, notify any service, authenticate your way, and automate everything.
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Apica Product Overview
Apica helps you simplify telemetry data management and control observability costs.
Fleet Management transforms the traditional, static method of telemetry into a dynamic, flexible system tailored to your unique operational needs. It offers a nuanced approach to observability data collection, emphasizing efficiency and adaptability.
100% Pipeline control to maximize data value. Collect, optimize, store, transform, route, and replay your observability data – however, whenever and wherever you need it. Apica’s data lake (powered by InstaStore™), a patented single-tier storage platform that seamlessly integrates with any object storage. It fully indexes incoming data, providing uniform, on-demand, and real-time access to all information. The most comprehensive and user-friendly platform in the industry. Gain real-time insights into every layer of your infrastructure with automatic anomaly detection and root cause analysis. - Resources
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Apica keeps enterprises operating. The Ascent platform delivers intelligent data management to quickly find and resolve complex digital performance issues before they negatively impact the bottom line.Security
In a world in constant motion where threat actors are everywhere it is important to always improve the security in all parts of your organization. We believe that is done by leveraging industry best practices and adopting the latest technology. We are proud to be both ISO27001 and SOC2 certified and thus your data is safe and secure with us.News
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Access the Monitoring Portal (powered by InstaStore™) to view live system performance data, monitor key metrics, and quickly identify any issues to maintain optimal reliability and uptime.
