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What clicked for me is: A span is a key-value attribute about some point in time event A trace is a DAG of spans that tells you a story about some related eve
by rednafi 1y ago
What clicked for me is:
A span is a key-value attribute about some point in time event
A trace is a DAG of spans that tells you a story about some related events
- eterm 1y agoWhat do you mean exactly by "point in time event"? As I understand it, a metric is information at a point in time. A span however has a start timestamp and end timestamp, and is about a single operation that happens across that time. https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/metrics/ https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/metrics/ vs https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/trace/api/#span https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/trace/api/#span