Reference documentation and code samples for the Cloud Trace V2 API module Google::Cloud::Trace::V2::Span::SpanKind.
Type of span. Can be used to specify additional relationships between spans
in addition to a parent/child relationship.
Constants
SPAN_KIND_UNSPECIFIED
value: 0 Unspecified. Do NOT use as default.
Implementations MAY assume SpanKind.INTERNAL to be default.
INTERNAL
value: 1 Indicates that the span is used internally. Default value.
SERVER
value: 2 Indicates that the span covers server-side handling of an RPC or other
remote network request.
CLIENT
value: 3 Indicates that the span covers the client-side wrapper around an RPC or
other remote request.
PRODUCER
value: 4 Indicates that the span describes producer sending a message to a broker.
Unlike client and server, there is no direct critical path latency
relationship between producer and consumer spans (e.g. publishing a
message to a pubsub service).
CONSUMER
value: 5 Indicates that the span describes consumer receiving a message from a
broker. Unlike client and server, there is no direct critical path
latency relationship between producer and consumer spans (e.g. receiving
a message from a pubsub service subscription).
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