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Example span documents
editExample span documents
editThis example shows what span documents can look like when indexed in Elasticsearch:
[ { "@timestamp": "2017-05-30T18:53:27.154Z", "agent": { "name": "elastic-node", "version": "3.14.0" }, "ecs": { "version": "1.12.0" }, "event": { "outcome": "unknown" }, "http": { "request": { "method": "GET" }, "response": { "status_code": 200 } }, "labels": { "span_tag": "something" }, "observer": { "ephemeral_id": "c0cea3b6-97d7-4e15-9e35-c868e7a3c869", "hostname": "ix.lan", "id": "a49b4a08-689a-4724-8050-8bd0ae043281", "type": "apm-server", "version": "8.0.0", "version_major": 8 }, "parent": { "id": "945254c567a5417e" }, "processor": { "event": "span", "name": "transaction" }, "service": { "environment": "staging", "name": "1234_service-12a3" }, "span": { "action": "query", "db": { "instance": "customers", "statement": "SELECT * FROM product_types WHERE user_id=?", "type": "sql", "user": { "name": "readonly_user" } }, "duration": { "us": 3781 }, "http": { "method": "GET", "response": { "status_code": 200 } }, "http.url.original": "http://localhost:8000", "id": "0aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa", "name": "SELECT FROM product_types", "stacktrace": [ { "abs_path": "net.js", "context": { "post": [ " ins.currentTransaction = prev", " return result", "}" ], "pre": [ " var trans = this.currentTransaction", "" ] }, "exclude_from_grouping": false, "filename": "net.js", "function": "onread", "library_frame": true, "line": { "column": 4, "context": "line3", "number": 547 }, "module": "some module", "vars": { "key": "value" } }, { "exclude_from_grouping": false, "filename": "my2file.js", "line": { "number": 10 } } ], "start": { "us": 2830 }, "subtype": "postgresql", "sync": false, "type": "db" }, "timestamp": { "us": 1496170407154000 }, "trace": { "id": "945254c567a5417eaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" }, "transaction": { "id": "945254c567a5417e" }, "url": { "original": "http://localhost:8000" } }, { "@timestamp": "2017-05-30T18:53:42.281Z", "agent": { "name": "js-base", "version": "1.3" }, "destination": { "address": "0:0::0:1", "ip": "0:0::0:1", "port": 5432 }, "ecs": { "version": "1.12.0" }, "event": { "outcome": "unknown" }, "observer": { "ephemeral_id": "2f13d8fa-83cd-4356-8123-aabfb47a1808", "hostname": "goat", "id": "17ad47dd-5671-4c89-979f-ef4533565ba2", "type": "apm-server", "version": "8.0.0", "version_major": 8 }, "parent": { "id": "85925e55b43f4342" }, "processor": { "event": "span", "name": "transaction" }, "service": { "environment": "staging", "name": "serviceabc" }, "span": { "action": "query.custom", "db": { "instance": "customers", "statement": "SELECT * FROM product_types WHERE user_id=?", "type": "sql", "user": { "name": "readonly_user" } }, "destination": { "service": { "name": "postgresql", "resource": "postgresql", "type": "db" } }, "duration": { "us": 3781 }, "id": "15aaaaaaaaaaaaaa", "name": "SELECT FROM product_types", "start": { "us": 2830 }, "subtype": "postgresql", "type": "db.postgresql.query" }, "timestamp": { "us": 1496170422281000 }, "trace": { "id": "85925e55b43f4342aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" }, "transaction": { "id": "85925e55b43f4342" } }, { "@timestamp": "2017-05-30T18:53:27.154Z", "agent": { "name": "elastic-node", "version": "3.14.0" }, "ecs": { "version": "1.12.0" }, "event": { "outcome": "unknown" }, "observer": { "ephemeral_id": "2f13d8fa-83cd-4356-8123-aabfb47a1808", "hostname": "goat", "id": "17ad47dd-5671-4c89-979f-ef4533565ba2", "type": "apm-server", "version": "8.0.0", "version_major": 8 }, "parent": { "id": "945254c567a5417e" }, "processor": { "event": "span", "name": "transaction" }, "service": { "environment": "staging", "name": "1234_service-12a3" }, "span": { "duration": { "us": 32592 }, "id": "1aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa", "name": "GET /api/types", "start": { "us": 0 }, "subtype": "external", "type": "request" }, "timestamp": { "us": 1496170407154000 }, "trace": { "id": "945254c567a5417eaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" }, "transaction": { "id": "945254c567a5417e" } }, { "@timestamp": "2017-05-30T18:53:27.154Z", "agent": { "name": "elastic-node", "version": "3.14.0" }, "ecs": { "version": "1.12.0" }, "event": { "outcome": "unknown" }, "observer": { "ephemeral_id": "2f13d8fa-83cd-4356-8123-aabfb47a1808", "hostname": "goat", "id": "17ad47dd-5671-4c89-979f-ef4533565ba2", "type": "apm-server", "version": "8.0.0", "version_major": 8 }, "parent": { "id": "945254c567a5417e" }, "processor": { "event": "span", "name": "transaction" }, "service": { "environment": "staging", "name": "1234_service-12a3" }, "span": { "action": "post", "duration": { "us": 3564 }, "id": "2aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa", "name": "GET /api/types", "start": { "us": 1845 }, "subtype": "http", "type": "request" }, "timestamp": { "us": 1496170407154000 }, "trace": { "id": "945254c567a5417eaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" }, "transaction": { "id": "945254c567a5417e" } }, { "@timestamp": "2017-05-30T18:53:27.154Z", "agent": { "name": "elastic-node", "version": "3.14.0" }, "child": { "id": [ "4aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" ] }, "ecs": { "version": "1.12.0" }, "event": { "outcome": "unknown" }, "observer": { "ephemeral_id": "2f13d8fa-83cd-4356-8123-aabfb47a1808", "hostname": "goat", "id": "17ad47dd-5671-4c89-979f-ef4533565ba2", "type": "apm-server", "version": "8.0.0", "version_major": 8 }, "parent": { "id": "945254c567a5417e" }, "processor": { "event": "span", "name": "transaction" }, "service": { "environment": "staging", "name": "1234_service-12a3" }, "span": { "duration": { "us": 13980 }, "id": "3aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa", "name": "GET /api/types", "start": { "us": 0 }, "type": "request" }, "timestamp": { "us": 1496170407154000 }, "trace": { "id": "945254c567a5417eaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" }, "transaction": { "id": "945254c567a5417e" } } ]