A method for end-to-end tracing includes receiving, from a user node, a request for a tracing session, receiving an argument and a provider identifier for the tracing session, and initiating tracing on compute nodes by sending the argument to a provider identified by the provider identifier, the provider located on each of the compute nodes. The method further includes receiving event reports from the compute nodes, and combining the event reports into a tracing information for the tracing session. The method further includes sending the tracing information to the user node.