Reference documentation and code samples for the Stackdriver Monitoring V3 Client class SpanContext.
The context of a span. This is attached to anExemplarinDistributionvalues during aggregation.
It contains the name of a span with format:
projects/[PROJECT_ID_OR_NUMBER]/traces/[TRACE_ID]/spans/[SPAN_ID]
Generated from protobuf messagegoogle.monitoring.v3.SpanContext
Namespace
Google \ Cloud \ Monitoring \ V3
Methods
__construct
Constructor.
Parameters
Name
Description
data
array
Optional. Data for populating the Message object.
↳ span_name
string
The resource name of the span. The format is: projects/[PROJECT_ID_OR_NUMBER]/traces/[TRACE_ID]/spans/[SPAN_ID][TRACE_ID]is a unique identifier for a trace within a project; it is a 32-character hexadecimal encoding of a 16-byte array.[SPAN_ID]is a unique identifier for a span within a trace; it is a 16-character hexadecimal encoding of an 8-byte array.
getSpanName
The resource name of the span. The format is:
projects/[PROJECT_ID_OR_NUMBER]/traces/[TRACE_ID]/spans/[SPAN_ID][TRACE_ID]is a unique identifier for a trace within a project;
it is a 32-character hexadecimal encoding of a 16-byte array.
[SPAN_ID]is a unique identifier for a span within a trace; it
is a 16-character hexadecimal encoding of an 8-byte array.
Returns
Type
Description
string
setSpanName
The resource name of the span. The format is:
projects/[PROJECT_ID_OR_NUMBER]/traces/[TRACE_ID]/spans/[SPAN_ID][TRACE_ID]is a unique identifier for a trace within a project;
it is a 32-character hexadecimal encoding of a 16-byte array.
[SPAN_ID]is a unique identifier for a span within a trace; it
is a 16-character hexadecimal encoding of an 8-byte array.
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