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title: "Distributed Tracing - Air Market"
description: "A request passes through several services and something in there is slow or broken, but each service only shows you its own piece. Tracing stitches those pieces into one view so you can see the whole…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/distributed-tracing"
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[Air Market](/) / [IT & Ops](/category/ops) / Distributed Tracing

Skill by [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson)

# Distributed Tracing

Follow one request across every service it touches

## What this does

A request passes through several services and something in there is slow or broken, but each service only shows you its own piece. Tracing stitches those pieces into one view so you can see the whole path. Reach for it when you cannot tell which service is the problem.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- See where a request actually goes
- Find which service is the slow one
- Debug across microservices

## Information

**Distributed Tracing at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson) |
| Category | [IT & Ops](/category/ops) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 10 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [wshobson/agents](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/observability-monitoring/skills/distributed-tracing) |
| GitHub stars | 39,077 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 11,169, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Distributed Tracing and recorded 0 findings and 2 flagged items. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Distributed Tracing's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f |
| Content hash | ba6de169896f56ca05d043586e3a3d1a9b1813e3b04a975087f724ebd8d6ef60 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/blob/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/observability-monitoring/skills/distributed-tracing/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Distributed Tracing](/security/distributed-tracing)

## About Distributed Tracing

This covers implementing distributed tracing with Jaeger and Tempo, so requests can be tracked as they move across microservices and performance bottlenecks can be located.

Use it when you are debugging microservices, analyzing how requests flow through a system, or adding observability to a distributed setup.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/details.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Distributed Tracing safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Distributed Tracing and recorded 0 findings and 2 flagged items. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit be57c0b2e3c0, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/distributed-tracing.

### How do I install Distributed Tracing?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/distributed-tracing on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/observability-monitoring/skills/distributed-tracing. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More IT & Ops listings](/category/ops)
- [Everything by Seth Hobson](/@wshobson)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/distributed-tracing>