Traces

Traces are designed to show the flow of execution.

Concepts

• Context about the position is propagated through tracing headers.
  • The preferred specification for context propagation in HTTP is W3C Trace Context, though B3 (Zipkin) is supported.
• Spans represent individual calls or transactions in a trace.
  • Kind identifies their type:
    • client/server
    • producer/consumer
    • internal
  • Attributes contain arbitrary metadata.
  • Events are named strings.
  • Links may help identify background/batch jobs related to a given transaction.

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Backlinks

• Honeycomb (public)
• OpenTelemetry (public)
• 2022-03-25 (internal) (Private)