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 is a single unit of work performed by the agent.

Spans conform to the following rules:

• 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 will be made up of sections, separated by periods. Sections will contain only alphanumeric characters and dashes. For example: tfc.run.terraform-version.
• Span attributes in the tfc namespace will have information relevant to the entire operation.
• Span attributes in the debug namespace will have information relevant to the current span's scope.