Capability to manually create spans

[cyrille-leclerc]

Capability to manually create spans

[ipleten]

It also might be beneficial to get id of span and of traceID to enrich trace with data from other tools.
Like we have deployment tool being triggered within pipeline which we can update to send spans to current trace therefore we could track deployment status linked to pipeline.

[kuisathaverat]

Does the following pipeline code do the same? I think so

def my_span(List spanAttributes, Closure body) {
    withSpanAttributes(spanAttributes) {
        body()
    }
}

pipeline {
    agent any
    stages {
        stage('Checkout') {
            steps {
                my_span([spanAttribute(key: "test.tool", value: "junit")]) {
                    // TODO sequence of shell steps to `git`+ fetch git submodules
                    // Get some code from a GitHub repository
                    // git credentialsId: 'my-user-git', url: 'https://github.com/jglick/simple-maven-project-with-tests.git'
                }
            }
        }
        stage('Build') {
            steps {
                ...
            }
        }
    }
}

[kuisathaverat]

I am wrong; the functions and shared library steps do not create a new span. I will review if it is possible to generate a span there.