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# Tracing Service

The Tracing Service provides a centralized and scalable solution for collecting, storing, and analyzing distributed traces from your applications, services, and infrastructure.

## Product Overview

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Tracing Service</strong></mark></td><td>Understand tracing concepts, supported formats, pipeline architecture, trace sources, and trace types.</td><td><a href="/cloud/observability/tracing-service/overview.md">Overview</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Quick Links

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Use Cases</strong></mark></td><td>See common scenarios for distributed tracing across applications, APIs, and microservices.</td><td><a href="/cloud/observability/tracing-service/use-cases.md">Use Cases</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Quick Start</strong></mark></td><td>Create a tracing pipeline, send traces, and access them from the platform.</td><td><a href="/cloud/observability/tracing-service/quick-start.md">Quick Start</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Billing</strong></mark></td><td>Understand how trace ingestion usage is counted, billed, and monitored.</td><td><a href="/cloud/observability/tracing-service/billing.md">Billing</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>FAQ</strong></mark></td><td>Get answers to the most commonly encountered questions about the Tracing Service platform.</td><td><a href="/cloud/observability/tracing-service/tracing-service-faqs.md">FAQ</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Tutorials</strong></mark></td><td>Step-by-step instructions for tracing applications, AI agents, and automation workflows.</td><td><a href="https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/tutorials/observability/tracing-service">https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/tutorials/observability/tracing-service</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Developer Tools

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Tracing Service API</strong></mark></td><td>Access the API documentation for the Tracing Service</td><td><a href="https://api.ionos.com/docs/tracing/v1/">https://api.ionos.com/docs/tracing/v1/</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>SDKs</strong></mark></td><td>Explore available SDKs for interacting with Tracing Service and Cloud API.</td><td><a href="https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/sdk-tools-home#client-libraries">https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/sdk-tools-home#client-libraries</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Terraform</strong></mark></td><td>Learn how to use Terraform for managing observability resources.</td><td><a href="https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/sdk-tools-home#tools">https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/sdk-tools-home#tools</a></td></tr></tbody></table>


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