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Visualize the flows in your apps and services |
Visualizing your application's flows is a powerful way to deeply understand and debug your microservices.
The example below shows a flow starting with an API request to the 'wikipedia-service' microservice, which calls 'user-service', and then saves data to the MongoDB database.
Clicking on a component, such as the 'wikipedia-service' component, highlighted in blue, shows details of the HTTP request and response on the right:
To visualize the next part of the flow, we'll click on the next component in the flow, 'user-service'.
The next step in the flow is an action on the MongoDB database, in this case, a findOne operation.
The query, along with other relevant data, such as the DB response, is shown on the right: