Lexicon

Trace Span

Kind: technique

Layer: Observability

Record: lexicon:trace-span

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for recording the start, end and context of an operation as a span within a request's trace.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Structured Log and before Alert on Critical Failure.

Category

  • Observability / Auditability / Traceability

Refactors

  • Unobservable Failure

Linked from

  • Anti-patterns