Seeing the Big Picture: Shopee’s Journey to Distributed Tracing with ClickHouse

Southeast Asia's leading ecommerce platform, Shopee, has successfully implemented distributed tracing using ClickHouse as an OLAP database management system to enhance its data analytics capabilities. The adoption of ClickHouse has supported the growing demands of internal teams efficiently and cost-effectively. Distributed tracing provides real-time insights into how data flows across the ecommerce platform, allowing hundreds of internal users to pinpoint exactly where delays or failures occur, make informed decisions, and implement fixes that enhance the platform's overall performance and reliability.