Specs

close_span(Appsignal.Span.t() | nil) :: :ok | nil

Closes a span and deregisters it.

Example

Appsignal.Tracer.current_span()
|> Appsignal.Tracer.close_span()

Specs

close_span(Appsignal.Span.t() | nil, list()) :: :ok | nil

Closes a span and deregisters it. Takes an options list, which currently only accepts a List with an :end_time integer.

Example

Appsignal.Tracer.current_span()
|> Appsignal.Tracer.close_span(end_time: :os.system_time())

Specs

create_span(String.t()) :: Appsignal.Span.t() | nil

Creates a new root span.

Example

Appsignal.Tracer.create_span("http_request")

Specs

create_span(String.t(), Appsignal.Span.t() | nil) :: Appsignal.Span.t() | nil

Creates a new child span.

Example

parent = Appsignal.Tracer.current_span()

Appsignal.Tracer.create_span("http_request", parent)

Specs

create_span(String.t(), Appsignal.Span.t() | nil, options()) ::
  Appsignal.Span.t() | nil

Creates a new span, with an optional parent or pid.

Example

parent = Appsignal.Tracer.current_span()

Appsignal.Tracer.create_span("http_request", parent, [start_time: :os.system_time(), pid: self()])

Specs

current_span() :: Appsignal.Span.t() | nil

Returns the current span in the current process.

Specs

current_span(pid()) :: Appsignal.Span.t() | nil

Returns the current span in the passed pid's process.

Specs

delete(pid()) :: :ok

Removes the process' spans from the registry.

Specs

ignore() :: :ok | nil

Ignores the current process.

Specs

lookup(pid()) :: list()

Finds the span in the registry table.

Specs

root_span() :: Appsignal.Span.t() | nil

Returns the root span in the current process.

Specs

root_span(pid()) :: Appsignal.Span.t() | nil

Returns the root span in the passed pid's process.