Three panels for sister Sarah:

1- topology panel
2- pipelines panel
3- cytoscape panel

1- topology panel

These two metrics create the initial layers as follows:

1.1 Services Disconnected View

1.2 Service Layer View (with all underlying components collapsed):

1.3 Operation (Span Metrics) Layer View

1.4 Trace Layer Views (various possibilities):

a. Traditional connection arrows:

b. Use case maps style trace presentation:

c. Pathways (no example yet, but similar to your approach)

something just like this

2- pipelines panel

3- cytoscape panel

seeing is beleiving