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Usual Performance Suspects: Introducing Suspect Spans

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Author
Tony Xiao, Rahul Chhabria
Word Count
717
Company Posts That Month
18
Language
English
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Summary

Suspect Spans` is a feature in Sentry's performance monitoring tool that helps developers identify slow spans within a transaction by surfacing a list of spans where the most time was spent, allowing them to quickly pinpoint and address performance issues. This feature complements other tools like `Operations Breakdown` and `Suspect Tags`, which provide different levels of granularity to help solve performance problems. By using `Suspect Spans`, developers can eliminate redundant queries, spot outliers with `Operations Breakdown`, and surface common events that slow down transactions with `Suspect Tags`. This allows them to focus on high-impact transactions and prioritize efforts on issues that impact user experience the most.

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