# Microservice failure tracing (/debugging--distributed-trace)

/debugging--distributed-trace is a Claude Code skill in the Code section. Traces a failing request across microservices using correlation IDs to find the service, timeout or retry behind the failure.

- Web version: https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/s/debugging--distributed-trace
- Section: [Code](https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/code.md)
- Author: Santiago Gómez de la Torre
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/blob/main/skills/debugging/distributed-trace.md
- Updated 30 Mar 2026

## How to ask for it

- `/debugging--distributed-trace trace why this request fails across microservices`
- `/debugging--distributed-trace correlate logs across these three services`
- `/debugging--distributed-trace find where this request gets lost in the architecture`

## Install

macOS · Linux:

```
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/main/install.sh | bash
```

Windows:

```
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/main/install.ps1 | iex
```

Claude Code plugin:

```
/plugin marketplace add sgomez-dev/claude-skills
/plugin install debugging-skills@claude-skills-collection
```

## Permissions

- Reads: `**/*`
- Writes: `**/*`
- Runs: `curl`, `kubectl logs`, `kubectl get`, `docker logs`, `grpcurl`
- Network: Yes
- Destructive: No

## Author's description

Debug failures across microservices using distributed tracing and request correlation

- [How we review this](https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/methodology.md)