Tracer ​

The tracer object will be represented by this template when stored

{
    "app_key": "<app-key>",
    "name": "<span-name>",
    "service": "<service-key-or-host>",
    "attributes": {
        // some attributes here like
        "http.method": "POST"
    },
    "children": {
        // some another traces
    },
}

Explaning some objects ​

• app-key is the application key that this trace was generated. This is automatically retrieved by the TCP packet header.
• name is the span name that you want to this trace like: calculate-something
• service is a important one, is the application key or host that you want to be the destination of this trace, like if you send a http request to another service and put into service field the url of the service or the application key.
• attributes is all attributes that you want to fill.
• children is all traces that is child of this one, and will be used when exported to an API too.