Dagger Traces is a beta view introduced in Dagger Cloud, designed to assist with debugging and optimization by providing a UI to debug what went wrong when something fails, tracing what happened and when it happened. It helps optimize Dagger Functions and modules as they are authored by giving detailed step-by-step execution of the pipeline and associated telemetry. The feature includes tracing upstream and downstream operations, finding performance bottlenecks, collaborating with teams, integrating with GitHub Checks for real-time status and exact calls used, easily telling how long pipelines took to run including every step, seeing which Functions were called, and viewing detailed breakdowns in the Trace Details page. To try Traces, users need to upgrade their Dagger Engine to version 0.11 or later and create a Dagger Cloud account if needed. The feature is actively developed and requires feedback from users to improve it.