Creates a sink that exports trace spans to a destination. The export of newly-ingested traces begins immediately, unless the sink's writerIdentity is not permitted to write to the destination. A sink can export traces only from the resource owning the sink (the 'parent').
HTTP request
POST https://cloudtrace.googleapis.com/v2beta1/{parent=projects/*}/traceSinks
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