Learn how exception analysis can help identify and investigate exceptions quickly to prevent failures and performance issues.

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Exception Analysis is a new feature in the Dynatrace Distributed Tracing app that helps developers spot, group, and investigate exceptions across full traces. It provides aggregated views of exceptions over time, readable stack traces, and visual markers on problematic spans. The feature supports both OpenTelemetry and OneAgent collection, enabling teams to proactively identify deprecated functions, repeated errors, and root causes before they escalate into outages. A walkthrough demo shows how to go from noticing an anomaly to pinpointing a PHP deprecated-function exception occurring 1,000 times per hour on a specific endpoint.

Why exceptions matter: Elevating your distributed tracing investigations

An example of exception analysis investigation

Investigating a failure caused by an exception