> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/tutorials/observability/tracing-service.md).

# Tracing Service

The <code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> **Tracing Service** provides a centralized, OpenTelemetry-native platform to collect, store, and analyze distributed traces from your applications, services, and infrastructure. Together with Monitoring and Logging, it completes the observability triad, correlating traces, logs, and metrics in a single Grafana interface. Learn more about its concepts and configuration in the [<mark style="color:blue;">Tracing Service User Guide</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/observability/tracing-service).

<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>Trace n8n Workflow Executions with the Tracing Service</strong></mark></td><td>Export n8n workflow and node execution traces to the Tracing Service using n8n's built-in OpenTelemetry support, with no code changes.</td><td><a href="/pages/B1WNTa7vmCsehTGzWTqm">/pages/B1WNTa7vmCsehTGzWTqm</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Trace an AI Agent That Uses AI Model Hub with the Tracing Service</strong></mark></td><td>Instrument a Python AI agent that calls IONOS AI Model Hub and export GenAI traces (prompts, tokens, latency) to the Tracing Service.</td><td><a href="/pages/Fvo5y0Qu6cdSn12F1gjk">/pages/Fvo5y0Qu6cdSn12F1gjk</a></td></tr></tbody></table>


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