Tracing

The agent emits tracing spans that can be consumed by various distributed tracing tools. Information about supported tools can be found on the OpenTelemetry Registry. A span describes a single, concise unit of work performed by the agent, such as writing a file or downloading an artifact.

Span names

Each span has a unique name in plain English, explaining what it represents. Due to this descriptive nature of spans, individual trace spans are not documented on this page.

Span attributes

Span attribute keys typically contain only letters, numbers, and underscores. In some cases, span attributes may contain dots (.) to provide structure to a set of related attributes.

Span attributes in the debug namespace will have information relevant to the current span's scope.