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Question about Span Links in OpenTelemetry - Effect Community
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Patrick Roza
Question about Span Links in OpenTelemetry
don
't we have span links inverted
?
the way how I read it
, we should link spans from children to parent
, but the implementation and sample seems to be setup in a way where you add links in the parent
, to children
;
https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/signals/traces/#span-links
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/blob/d99e211a311ceefdfed67c501ea99129f5488434/api/src/trace/link.ts#L35
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