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In AppSignal, performance and tracing describe the same core flow from two sides. A trace shows what happened during a request, job, or script run. Performance views help you understand where that trace spent time and where it slowed down. When a trace is slow, you can use AppSignal to inspect the spans and events inside it. When a trace ends with an exception, that same trace becomes the context you use to debug the error.

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Follow the trace

Use these guides when you want to investigate performance in more detail:

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Add more instrumentation

When the default instrumentation is not enough, add more detail to your traces with: