Can tracing using the UI deteriorate performance?

mrios
Participant IV

We're running 18.01 OPDK and we have some users that are able to trace calls in our production environment.

Is there any concern if too many people is tracing at the same time?

How much pressure puts tracing on the system and which components could be affected?

Also, is it possible to update any value while tracing or is it a read only feature? According to the documentation seems to be a read only feature because is omitting any possible update but I want to confirm.

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@Matias,

AFAIK, Yes the trace tool does affect the api proxy's performance. Hence the auto-shutdown of the Tracer after 10 minutes. And yes, it is a read-only feature.

I would be concerned if I have multiple people in my team tracing the api proxy in production as a normal practice. I would suggest to leverage the MessageLogging policy and have people go through the logs there instead. This way you avoid using the Trace on prod as well as you can also look at failures that have happened in the past (when there was no one actively tracing the api-proxy).