Platform

The layer, before the trace.

Checkout opens as a stack. The hop outside its baseline is marked on the layer. The trace is the next step.

The product’s layer view is synthetics, real users, the load balancer, the firewall, the network, the application, the database, and the infrastructure. The screen below is that view for the planted checkout.

The pay click is slow. payment-svc is waiting. orders-pg answered in 11 milliseconds against a 15 millisecond normal. Stripe EU is the root at 2.10 seconds against 140 milliseconds.

Checkout layer stack. The pay click is slow, payment-svc is waiting, orders-pg is inside its baseline, and Stripe EU is marked as the root.
The layer stack on the planted checkout.

An illustration of the same path

The tilted stack is drawn for this site. It names the hops a shopper crosses: user, CDN and load balancer, firewall, Apigee, services, Kafka, database, and Stripe. In the demo the marked hop is Stripe EU.

  1. 01 User
  2. 02 CDN / load balancer
  3. 03 Firewall
  4. 04 Gateway · Apigee
  5. 05 Services
  6. 06 Kafka
  7. 07 Database
  8. 08 Stripe Fault

Illustration of the checkout path. In the demo the marked hop is Stripe EU.