# Traces

Apica Ascent ingests traces and logs from OpenTelemetry collector and Jaeger agent. It implements scalable streaming and indexing of spans, traces and logs directly to any object storage. Users can **search** and **visualize** **spans**, **traces**, and **logs** using a simple intuitive **built-in UI**. Our UI borrows several key aspects from the Jaeger UI project while integrating it seamlessly with Apica Ascent's infinitely scalable InstaStore backend built on top of object storage.

### Finding Traces

In the Apica Ascent UI, navigate to *Traces* under *Explore* in the navigational menu.

![Traces navigational menu](https://2948796384-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-LmzGprckLqwd5v6bs6m%2Fuploads%2FffkgeCrJ1Z12tkt1Kjej%2FScreen%20Shot%202022-07-12%20at%205.08.14%20PM.png?alt=media\&token=7eae8610-b375-40a5-aa46-612ad0b648f7) ![Search for Tracens and Spans](https://2948796384-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-LmzGprckLqwd5v6bs6m%2Fuploads%2FeMUVm7OHR69O6tlXP2oy%2FScreen%20Shot%202022-07-12%20at%205.08.39%20PM.png?alt=media\&token=10b9d249-b3ee-4545-97e5-db0978774a5b)

You can now search for traces by *Service* and *Operation* name as well as *tags*

![Searching by Operation and Service](https://2948796384-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-LmzGprckLqwd5v6bs6m%2Fuploads%2Fn1MWbV7wNzkuZuWle57x%2FScreen%20Shot%202022-07-12%20at%205.11.50%20PM.png?alt=media\&token=a8616ca7-e046-45eb-b900-0d8975fa854e) ![Looking at a trace](https://2948796384-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-LmzGprckLqwd5v6bs6m%2Fuploads%2FF1MsdhPwdTd2IAp4UpHF%2FScreen%20Shot%202022-07-12%20at%205.12.09%20PM.png?alt=media\&token=6c238f15-85af-415e-b7fe-25f31976862d)

You can also click *Analyze* and get the full span and logs for the trace for download.

![Analyze to go to get and download all data for a trace](https://2948796384-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-LmzGprckLqwd5v6bs6m%2Fuploads%2F2qU0shqUJnf5NV0ME9oD%2FScreen%20Shot%202022-07-12%20at%205.12.29%20PM.png?alt=media\&token=b6688aa3-328c-48c3-821b-850c61c39705)

![](https://2948796384-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-LmzGprckLqwd5v6bs6m%2Fuploads%2FJkFyzBiCyYa2n3CulcUW%2FScreen%20Shot%202022-07-12%20at%205.14.04%20PM.png?alt=media\&token=0b361d64-1826-4863-94b9-05eba52aad43)