Today’s post is the latest installation in our 2014 Google Cloud Platform Year in Review. Every day until January, we will be featuring a different Googler sharing their highlight from the past year in Cloud Platform.



Faster than the blink of an eye. That’s how fast you can trace requests with Google Cloud Trace, where you can isolate performance issues in your application by giving you detailed trace report of exactly where every millisecond is going in your request.



We were very happy to be able to find the troublesome requests by generating reports to help track down changes in performance from release to release with a graphical view of latency per request and example traces. In this example, version 42 has a long tail latency issue as seen by the spike around 2000ms mark in the graph and in the 95th percentile of requests.







--Posted by Pratul Dublish, Technical Program Manager, and Qi Ke, Software Engineer