APM Span fields

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Span-specific data for APM.

view spans

format: url

span.id

The ID of the span stored as hex encoded string.

type: keyword

span.name

Generic designation of a span in the scope of a transaction.

type: keyword

span.type

Keyword of specific relevance in the service’s domain (eg: db.postgresql.query, template.erb, cache, etc).

type: keyword

span.subtype

A further sub-division of the type (e.g. postgresql, elasticsearch)

type: keyword

span.action

The specific kind of event within the sub-type represented by the span (e.g. query, connect)

type: keyword

span.start.us

Offset relative to the transaction’s timestamp identifying the start of the span, in microseconds.

type: long

span.duration.us

Duration of the span, in microseconds.

type: long

span.sync

Indicates whether the span was executed synchronously or asynchronously.

type: boolean