> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://mintlify.com/getsentry/cli/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # sentry trace view > View detailed information about a distributed trace # sentry trace view View detailed information about a distributed trace by its ID, including a hierarchical span tree. ## Usage ```bash theme={null} sentry trace view [/] ``` ## Target Specification ```bash theme={null} sentry trace view # auto-detect from DSN or config sentry trace view / # explicit org and project sentry trace view # find project across all orgs ``` The trace ID is the 32-character hexadecimal identifier. ## Arguments 32-character hexadecimal trace identifier **Example:** ```bash theme={null} sentry trace view abc123def456abc123def456abc123de ``` Optional target in format `/` or `` (searches across orgs) If not provided, auto-detects from DSN in working directory or config defaults. ## Flags Output trace data as JSON including summary and spans **Example:** ```bash theme={null} sentry trace view abc123def456abc123def456abc123de --json ``` Open the trace in your default web browser instead of displaying in terminal **Alias:** `-w` **Example:** ```bash theme={null} sentry trace view abc123def456abc123def456abc123de -w ``` Maximum depth of span tree to display. Set to `0` or use `--spans no` to disable span tree display. **Example:** ```bash theme={null} # Show deeper span tree sentry trace view abc123def456abc123def456abc123de --spans 20 # Disable span tree sentry trace view abc123def456abc123def456abc123de --spans 0 sentry trace view abc123def456abc123def456abc123de --spans no ``` ## Examples ### View a trace (auto-detect context) ```bash theme={null} sentry trace view abc123def456abc123def456abc123de ``` ### View trace with explicit org/project ```bash theme={null} sentry trace view my-org/my-project abc123def456abc123def456abc123de ``` ### View trace with project slug (searches across orgs) ```bash theme={null} sentry trace view my-project abc123def456abc123def456abc123de ``` ### Open trace in browser ```bash theme={null} sentry trace view abc123def456abc123def456abc123de --web sentry trace view abc123def456abc123def456abc123de -w ``` ### View trace with deeper span tree ```bash theme={null} sentry trace view abc123def456abc123def456abc123de --spans 20 ``` ### View trace without span tree ```bash theme={null} sentry trace view abc123def456abc123def456abc123de --spans 0 ``` ### Output as JSON ```bash theme={null} sentry trace view abc123def456abc123def456abc123de --json ``` ## Sample Output ### Human-Readable Format ``` ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Trace Summary ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Trace ID: abc123def456abc123def456abc123de Duration: 2.4s Spans: 45 Projects: 3 (frontend, backend-api, payment-service) Root: GET /api/checkout Timestamp: 2024-03-05 14:23:45 UTC Status: ok ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Span Tree ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▼ http.server GET /api/checkout 2.4s [frontend] ├─ db.query SELECT * FROM cart WHERE user_id = ? 45ms [frontend] ├─ http.client POST /api/payment/process 1.8s [backend-api] │ ├─ db.query BEGIN TRANSACTION 12ms [backend-api] │ ├─ http.client POST /external/stripe/charge 1.5s [payment-service] │ │ ├─ http.request POST https://api.stripe.com 1.2s [payment-service] │ │ └─ db.query INSERT INTO transactions 34ms [payment-service] │ ├─ db.query UPDATE orders SET status = 'paid' 23ms [backend-api] │ └─ db.query COMMIT 18ms [backend-api] ├─ http.client GET /api/inventory/reserve 120ms [backend-api] └─ cache.set user:123:cart 8ms [frontend] Tip: Open in browser with 'sentry trace view --web abc123def456abc123def456abc123de' ``` ### JSON Format ```json theme={null} { "summary": { "traceId": "abc123def456abc123def456abc123de", "duration": 2.4, "spanCount": 45, "projectCount": 3, "projects": ["frontend", "backend-api", "payment-service"], "rootOperation": "GET /api/checkout", "timestamp": "2024-03-05T14:23:45Z", "status": "ok" }, "spans": [ { "span_id": "def456abc123def4", "parent_span_id": null, "trace_id": "abc123def456abc123def456abc123de", "op": "http.server", "description": "GET /api/checkout", "start_timestamp": 1709649825.0, "timestamp": 1709649827.4, "status": "ok", "project": "frontend" }, { "span_id": "456abc123def456a", "parent_span_id": "def456abc123def4", "trace_id": "abc123def456abc123def456abc123de", "op": "db.query", "description": "SELECT * FROM cart WHERE user_id = ?", "start_timestamp": 1709649825.1, "timestamp": 1709649825.145, "status": "ok", "project": "frontend" } ] } ``` ## Notes * Organization and project context is required to fetch the trace. If not provided explicitly, it's resolved from DSN detection or config defaults. * The trace API searches around the current timestamp to locate trace data. * Traces are typically retained for 90 days in Sentry. * The span tree shows a hierarchical view of all operations across services, helping identify performance bottlenecks. * Use `--spans 0` to disable span tree fetching for faster output when you only need trace metadata. * The `-w` flag is useful for quickly jumping to the Sentry web UI for interactive trace exploration. * Cross-project traces show which services were involved in handling the request. ## See Also * [sentry trace list](/commands/trace/list) - List traces from projects * [sentry trace logs](/commands/trace/logs) - List logs for a specific trace * [sentry event view](/commands/event/view) - View event details * [sentry log view](/commands/log/view) - View log entry details