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TraceID

TraceID

TraceID is the identifier for a trace. It is globally unique and with sufficient entropy generated from 16 randomly generated bytes. It serves to group all the spans that belong to the same trace across all processes.

This field is REQUIRED for every span.

References

Resource URL
TraceID in specs specs/Trace/Span.TraceID
TraceID proto definition specs/Trace/TraceID.TraceID