Nothing running for days, but sometimes a half hour or so. When the process kicks off it starts a trace, but individual steps of the process create separate spa

Nothing running for days, but sometimes a half hour or so. When the process kicks off it starts a trace, but individual steps of the process create separate spans within that trace (and sometimes further nested spans) that don't run the entire length of the job. As the job progresses, the spans and their related events, logs, etc all appear. I think this does highlight, to me, the biggest weakness of OTel--the actual documentation and examples for "how to solve problems with this" really suck.