docs(logging): Documentation for automatic trace/span ID extraction #10536
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| or [X-Cloud-Trace-Context] headers, if those headers exist. | ||
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| Note that if Trace, SpanID, or TraceSampled are explicitly provided within an Entry object, those values will take precedence over values automatically | ||
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I think you could just say "over automatically extracted values"
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| 2. Trace, SpanID, and TraceSampled fields will be populated from information from the http.Request's [W3C Traceparent] | ||
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| Note that if Trace, SpanID, or TraceSampled are explicitly provided within an Entry object, those values will take precedence over values automatically |
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I'd say "object, then those values take precedence" (a little more direct/less wordy than "will take", and then meaning is the same)
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| When Entry with an [http.Request] is logged, its Trace, SpanID, and TraceSampled fields may be automatically populated as follows: | ||
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| 1. If you are instrumenting your application with [OpenTelemetry] and your http.Request's Context contains an [OpenTelemetry span context], |
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Hi Kevin, do we need to specify this "and your http.Request's Context contains an [OpenTelemetry span context]"? It is automatically added when customer's application is instrumented with OpenTelemetry right?
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| # Automatic Metadata Extraction | |||
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Do we want to call this "Automatic Metadata Extraction" or "Automatic Trace/Span Id Extraction" as in googleapis/python-logging#915?
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I think it would be good to change it to be more specific in this instance.
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| 1. If you are instrumenting your application with [OpenTelemetry], |
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It might be helpful to be more specific, and reference go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp, since it would be complicated for users to properly to use this without the instrumentation library itself.
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