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title: Tracing
description: Tracing and Metrics provide fine-grained insight into how an
  application is performing, and helps to diagnose when it is not.
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# Tracing

> Tracing and Metrics provide fine-grained insight into how an application is performing, and helps to diagnose when it is not. 

> [!WARNING]
> Response Time Observability is not supported in Python SDK 4.0\. View [the Python SDK 3.2 docs](#3.2@response-time-observability)RTO support will be available in a later 4.x release. See the [SDK 4.0 migration considerations](../project-docs/migrating-sdk-code-to-3.n.md#sdk4-specifics).