# Finding incomplete traces

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-incomplete-traces/365723>\
**Category:** Elastic Observability\
**Created:** [August 28, 2024, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-incomplete-traces/365723 "2024-08-28T19:46:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![amccool](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/amccool/32/29247_2.png) [@amccool](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amccool)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-incomplete-traces/365723/1 "2024-08-28T19:46:11Z")

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we are updating our code base to support distributed traces. How can I find all occurrences of incomplete traces?

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**Author:** ![ashishtiwari1993](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ashishtiwari1993/32/135241_2.png) [@ashishtiwari1993](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ashishtiwari1993)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 4:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-incomplete-traces/365723/2 "2024-08-29T04:01:51Z")

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Hi @amccool, What do you mean by incomplete traces? Is it non instrumented code you referring to?

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**Author:** ![amccool](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/amccool/32/29247_2.png) [@amccool](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amccool)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-incomplete-traces/365723/3 "2024-09-05T18:20:07Z")

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I want to be able to find any incomplete traces so I can track down the problem with each of them