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Understanding No-op Spans in Effect with Tracing Enabled - Effect Community
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7mo ago
Johnil
Understanding No-op Spans in Effect with Tracing Enabled
I think I
'm unclear on when no
-op spans are created vs when they
're not
. I have tracing enabled
, and spans are propagating just fine
, but when using
Effect.currentSpan
Effect.currentSpan
, I
'll see the span name set to
<anonymous>
<anonymous>
and the spanId is
noop
noop
. But that same
'noop
' span will have a parent that is a normal properly
-named span
.
Is it the case that all Effects get a noop span by default
? If so
, are there any convenience methods for getting the closest non
-noop span
?
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