Skip to content

ref(develop/spans): Clarify span attribute unit and type types #15547

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
merged 2 commits into from
Nov 19, 2025
Merged

ref(develop/spans): Clarify span attribute unit and type types #15547

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
df17995
ref(develop/spans): Clarify span attribute units
Lms24 Nov 18, 2025
a2e02be
fix
Lms24 Nov 18, 2025
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
9 changes: 7 additions & 2 deletions develop-docs/sdk/telemetry/spans/span-protocol.mdx
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ The envelope item payload must contain an `items` array with span one and up to
"http.response.status_code": {
"type": "integer",
"value": 200
},
"session.duration": {
"type": "integer",
"value": 164,
"unit": "second"
}
},
"links": [
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -158,9 +163,9 @@ Attributes are stored as key-value pairs where each value is an object with type

| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|----------|------|----------|-------------|
| `type` | string | Yes | The data type of the attribute value. Values: `"string"`, `"integer"`, `"double"`, `"boolean"` |
| `type` | string | Yes | The data type of the attribute value. Values: `"string"`, `"integer"`, `"double"`, `"boolean"`, `"string[]"`, `"integer[]"`, `"double[]"`, `"boolean[]"` |
| `value` | any | Yes | The actual attribute value, must match the specified type |
| `unit` | string | No | The unit of the attribute value. Example values: `"ms"`, `"s"`, `"bytes"`, `"count"`, `"percent"` |
| `unit` | string | No | The unit of the attribute value. Example values: `"millisecond"`, `"second"`, `"byte"`, `"ratio"`. Units MUST be one of the [MetricUnit](https://getsentry.github.io/relay/relay_metrics/enum.MetricUnit.html)s supported by Relay, excluding `""`, `"none"` or custom units. |

#### Common Attribute Keys

Expand Down
Loading