Datadog APM's Trace Queries feature provides indispensable insights into the state and performance of distributed applications by allowing users to filter and analyze traces based on various attributes, such as trace-level attributes, service relationships, endpoints, and other properties. This enables application developers to quickly turn granular visibility of microservices into bigger-picture insights on the health of application requests and the business impact of service performance. With Trace Queries, users can pinpoint the root causes of performance issues, measure end-to-end latency and other trace-level attributes, track the business impact of application performance, and put application performance data in context. By doing so, they can expedite troubleshooting, identify slow requests, analyze dependencies, and focus optimization efforts on high-priority issues.