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The remote tracing is done in inspectIT as per opentracing.io specification, with similar data model based on spans. However In opentracing.io, a trace is a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of "spans": named, timed operations representing a contiguous segment of work in that trace. However, inspectIT does combine the captured spans with the invocation sequences created on each JVM and is able to provide not only the landscape of the JVMs that interacted, but also provide details on the invocation execution during complete trace. This includes all the data that is captured as part of invocation sequences, as SQL statements, exceptions, method calls, etc.
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