Implementing a real time Tracer

[Mustafa Akın]

Hi all,

I am relatively new to OpenTracing, I have read the docs, but if the question might not make sense, sorry beforehand.

Is it logical to build a tracer to send data real time, without waiting span to finish? (mark span not finished yet. etc) For some of the systems, we will not need sampling and report all the data, we might as well get them realtime as they are not very large in quantities.

[Yuri Shkuro]

It's possible, but you need a backend that supports these incremental submissions, and you have to watch for performance impact from sending every tiny change over the wire. Most tracers batch the data into larger chunks.

We discussed partial spans for Jaeger here: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/issues/729