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An OpenTelemetry Trace consists of 1 or more Spans that either have a parent/child relationship or are linked together through a Link. Each Span has a TraceId (trace_id/0), SpanId (span_id/0), and a start and end time in nanoseconds.

This module provides declaration of the types used throughout the library, as well as functions for building the additional pieces of a span that are optional. Each item can be attached to individual Span using the functions in OpenTelemetry.Span module.

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Example

require OpenTelemetry.Tracer, as: Tracer

Tracer.with_span "some-span" do
  event = OpenTelemetry.event("ecto.query", query: query, total_time: total_time)
  Tracer.add_events([event])
end

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Types

Attributes are a collection of key/value pairs. The value can be a string, an integer, a double or the boolean values true or false. Note, global attributes like server name can be set using the resource API.

An Event is a time-stamped annotation of the span, consisting of user-supplied text description and key-value pairs.

A Link is a pointer from the current span to another span in the same trace or in a different trace. For example, this can be used in batching operations, where a single batch handler processes multiple requests from different traces or when the handler receives a request from a different project.

Span represents a single operation within a trace. Spans can be nested to form a trace tree. Spans may also be linked to other spans from the same or different trace and form graphs. Often, a trace contains a root span that describes the end-to-end latency, and one or more subspans for its sub-operations. A trace can also contain multiple root spans, or none at all. Spans do not need to be contiguous - there may be gaps or overlaps between spans in a trace.

A SpanContext represents the portion of a Span needed to do operations on a Span. Within a process it acts as a key for looking up and modifying the actual Span. It is also what is serialized and propagated across process boundaries.

SpanId is a unique identifier for a span within a trace, assigned when the span is created. The ID is an 8-byte array. An ID with all zeroes is considered invalid.

An optional final status for this span. Semantically when Status wasn't set it means span ended without errors and assume :unset.

TraceId is a unique identifier for a trace. All spans from the same trace share the same trace_id. The ID is a 16-byte array. An ID with all zeroes is considered invalid.

Tracestate represents tracing-system specific context in a list of key-value pairs. Tracestate allows different vendors propagate additional information and inter-operate with their legacy Id formats.

Functions

Convert a native monotonic timestamp to POSIX time of any :erlang.time_unit/0. Meaning the time since Epoch. Epoch is defined to be 00:00:00 UTC, 1970-01-01.

Creates a list of event/0 items.

Creates a link/0 from a span_ctx/0.

Creates a list of link/0 from a list of 4-tuples.

Creates a Status with an empty description.

Creates a Status.

A monotonically increasing time provided by the Erlang runtime system in the native time unit. This value is the most accurate and precise timestamp available from the Erlang runtime and should be used for finding durations or any timestamp that can be converted to a system time before being sent to another system.

Convert a native monotonic timestamp to nanosecond POSIX time. Meaning the time since Epoch. Epoch is defined to be 00:00:00 UTC, 1970-01-01.

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@type attribute_key() :: :opentelemetry.attribute_key()
@type attribute_value() :: :opentelemetry.attribute_value()
@type attributes_map() :: :opentelemetry.attributes_map()

Attributes are a collection of key/value pairs. The value can be a string, an integer, a double or the boolean values true or false. Note, global attributes like server name can be set using the resource API.

Examples of attributes:

[{"/http/user_agent" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36"}
 {"/http/server_latency", 300}
 {"abc.com/myattribute", True}
 {"abc.com/score", 10.239}]
@type event() :: :opentelemetry.event()

An Event is a time-stamped annotation of the span, consisting of user-supplied text description and key-value pairs.

@type event_name() :: :opentelemetry.event_name()
@type link() :: :opentelemetry.link()

A Link is a pointer from the current span to another span in the same trace or in a different trace. For example, this can be used in batching operations, where a single batch handler processes multiple requests from different traces or when the handler receives a request from a different project.

@type span() :: :opentelemetry.span()

Span represents a single operation within a trace. Spans can be nested to form a trace tree. Spans may also be linked to other spans from the same or different trace and form graphs. Often, a trace contains a root span that describes the end-to-end latency, and one or more subspans for its sub-operations. A trace can also contain multiple root spans, or none at all. Spans do not need to be contiguous - there may be gaps or overlaps between spans in a trace.

@type span_ctx() :: :opentelemetry.span_ctx()

A SpanContext represents the portion of a Span needed to do operations on a Span. Within a process it acts as a key for looking up and modifying the actual Span. It is also what is serialized and propagated across process boundaries.

@type span_id() :: non_neg_integer()

SpanId is a unique identifier for a span within a trace, assigned when the span is created. The ID is an 8-byte array. An ID with all zeroes is considered invalid.

@type span_kind() :: :opentelemetry.span_kind()
@type span_name() :: :opentelemetry.span_name()
@type status() :: :opentelemetry.status()

An optional final status for this span. Semantically when Status wasn't set it means span ended without errors and assume :unset.

Application developers may set the status as :ok when the operation has been validated to have completed successfully, or :error when the operation contains an error.

@type status_code() :: :opentelemetry.status_code()
@type trace_id() :: non_neg_integer()

TraceId is a unique identifier for a trace. All spans from the same trace share the same trace_id. The ID is a 16-byte array. An ID with all zeroes is considered invalid.

@type tracestate() :: :opentelemetry.tracestate()

Tracestate represents tracing-system specific context in a list of key-value pairs. Tracestate allows different vendors propagate additional information and inter-operate with their legacy Id formats.

It is a tracestate in the w3c-trace-context format. See also https://github.com/w3c/distributed-tracing for more details about this field.

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convert_timestamp(timestamp, unit)

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@spec convert_timestamp(integer(), :erlang.time_unit()) :: integer()

Convert a native monotonic timestamp to POSIX time of any :erlang.time_unit/0. Meaning the time since Epoch. Epoch is defined to be 00:00:00 UTC, 1970-01-01.

@spec event(event_name(), attributes_map()) :: event()

Creates a event/0.

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event(timestamp, name, attributes)

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@spec event(integer(), event_name(), attributes_map()) :: event()

Creates a event/0.

@spec events(list()) :: [event()]

Creates a list of event/0 items.

See :opentelemetry.get_tracer/1.

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get_tracer(name, vsn, schema_url)

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See :opentelemetry.get_tracer/3.

@spec link(span_ctx() | :undefined) :: link()

Creates a link/0 from a span_ctx/0.

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link(span_ctx, attributes)

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@spec link(span_ctx() | :undefined, attributes_map()) :: link()

Creates a link/0 from a span_ctx/0 and list of attributes_map/0.

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link(trace_id, span_id, attributes, tracestate)

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@spec link(trace_id(), span_id(), attributes_map(), tracestate()) :: link()

Creates a link/0.

@spec links([
  {integer(), integer(), attributes_map(), tracestate()}
  | span_ctx()
  | {span_ctx(), attributes_map()}
]) :: [link()]

Creates a list of link/0 from a list of 4-tuples.

See :opentelemetry.set_default_tracer/1.

@spec status(:opentelemetry.status_code()) :: status()

Creates a Status with an empty description.

@spec status(:opentelemetry.status_code(), String.t()) :: status()

Creates a Status.

@spec timestamp() :: integer()

A monotonically increasing time provided by the Erlang runtime system in the native time unit. This value is the most accurate and precise timestamp available from the Erlang runtime and should be used for finding durations or any timestamp that can be converted to a system time before being sent to another system.

Use convert_timestamp/2 or timestamp_to_nano/1 to convert a native monotonic time to a system time of either nanoseconds or another unit.

Using these functions allows timestamps to be accurate, used for duration and be exportable as POSIX time when needed.

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timestamp_to_nano(timestamp)

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@spec timestamp_to_nano(integer()) :: integer()

Convert a native monotonic timestamp to nanosecond POSIX time. Meaning the time since Epoch. Epoch is defined to be 00:00:00 UTC, 1970-01-01.