And that's exactly where tracing comes in. Except instead of writing a dozen log queries in your ELK/datadog/splunk/etc system and switching contexts that many

And that's exactly where tracing comes in. Except instead of writing a dozen log queries in your ELK/datadog/splunk/etc system and switching contexts that many times, you have a single view that centralizes who called whom when, and even aggregates text metadata that you may have chosen to include. In other words, logs, but you don't need "started xyz" because that's just the natural beginning of each span.