Package io.opentelemetry.trace

API for distributed tracing.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
Span	An interface that represents a span.
Span.Builder	Span.Builder is used to construct Span instances which define arbitrary scopes of code that are sampled for distributed tracing as a single atomic unit.
Tracer	Tracer is the interface for Span creation and interaction with the in-process context.
TracerProvider	A registry for creating named Tracers.

Class Summary

Class	Description
DefaultSpan	The DefaultSpan is the default Span that is used when no Span implementation is available.
DefaultTracer	No-op implementations of Tracer.
DefaultTracerProvider
EndSpanOptions	A class that enables overriding the default values used when ending a Span.
EndSpanOptions.Builder	Builder class for EndSpanOptions.
SpanContext	A class that represents a span context.
SpanId	Helper methods for dealing with a span identifier.
TraceFlags	Helper methods for dealing with trace flags options.
TraceId	Helper methods for dealing with a trace identifier.
TraceState	Carries tracing-system specific context in a list of key-value pairs.
TraceState.Builder	Builder class for TraceState.
TraceState.Entry	Immutable key-value pair for TraceState.
TracingContextUtils	Util methods/functionality to interact with the Context.

Enum Summary

Enum	Description
Span.Kind	Type of span.
StatusCanonicalCode	The set of canonical status codes.

Package io.opentelemetry.trace Description

API for distributed tracing.

Distributed tracing, also called distributed request tracing, is a technique that helps debugging distributed applications.

Trace represents a tree of spans. A trace has a root span that encapsulates all the spans from start to end, and the children spans being the distinct calls invoked in between.

Span represents a single operation within a trace.

Spans are propagated in-process in the io.grpc.Context and between process using one of the wire propagation formats supported in the opentelemetry.trace.propagation package.