GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Question

Cloud Trace lets you build an on-the-fly analysis by filtering the trace list with a span name expression such as span:"cloudspanner.googleapis.com/BeginTransaction". When you apply this filter and sort the results by latency, the list shows only the traces that contain that specific Spanner span, ordered from slowest to fastest. By scanning the latency column (or switching to the histogram view) you can immediately see whether traces that include this span are consistently slower than normal traffic. Creating external dashboards, uptime checks, or log-based metrics could add insight but would require additional configuration and would not directly correlate span-level latency across existing traces.