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POST
/
v1
/
projects
/
{project_identifier}
/
spans
Create spans
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.example.com/v1/projects/{project_identifier}/spans \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "data": [
    {
      "name": "<string>",
      "context": {
        "trace_id": "<string>",
        "span_id": "<string>"
      },
      "span_kind": "<string>",
      "start_time": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
      "end_time": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
      "status_code": "<string>",
      "id": "",
      "parent_id": "<string>",
      "status_message": "",
      "attributes": {},
      "events": [
        {
          "name": "<string>",
          "timestamp": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
          "attributes": {}
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
'
import requests

url = "https://api.example.com/v1/projects/{project_identifier}/spans"

payload = { "data": [
        {
            "name": "<string>",
            "context": {
                "trace_id": "<string>",
                "span_id": "<string>"
            },
            "span_kind": "<string>",
            "start_time": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
            "end_time": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
            "status_code": "<string>",
            "id": "",
            "parent_id": "<string>",
            "status_message": "",
            "attributes": {},
            "events": [
                {
                    "name": "<string>",
                    "timestamp": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
                    "attributes": {}
                }
            ]
        }
    ] }
headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    data: [
      {
        name: '<string>',
        context: {trace_id: '<string>', span_id: '<string>'},
        span_kind: '<string>',
        start_time: '2023-11-07T05:31:56Z',
        end_time: '2023-11-07T05:31:56Z',
        status_code: '<string>',
        id: '',
        parent_id: '<string>',
        status_message: '',
        attributes: {},
        events: [{name: '<string>', timestamp: '2023-11-07T05:31:56Z', attributes: {}}]
      }
    ]
  })
};

fetch('https://api.example.com/v1/projects/{project_identifier}/spans', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.example.com/v1/projects/{project_identifier}/spans",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'data' => [
        [
                'name' => '<string>',
                'context' => [
                                'trace_id' => '<string>',
                                'span_id' => '<string>'
                ],
                'span_kind' => '<string>',
                'start_time' => '2023-11-07T05:31:56Z',
                'end_time' => '2023-11-07T05:31:56Z',
                'status_code' => '<string>',
                'id' => '',
                'parent_id' => '<string>',
                'status_message' => '',
                'attributes' => [
                                
                ],
                'events' => [
                                [
                                                                'name' => '<string>',
                                                                'timestamp' => '2023-11-07T05:31:56Z',
                                                                'attributes' => [
                                                                                                                                
                                                                ]
                                ]
                ]
        ]
    ]
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.example.com/v1/projects/{project_identifier}/spans"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"data\": [\n    {\n      \"name\": \"<string>\",\n      \"context\": {\n        \"trace_id\": \"<string>\",\n        \"span_id\": \"<string>\"\n      },\n      \"span_kind\": \"<string>\",\n      \"start_time\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\",\n      \"end_time\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\",\n      \"status_code\": \"<string>\",\n      \"id\": \"\",\n      \"parent_id\": \"<string>\",\n      \"status_message\": \"\",\n      \"attributes\": {},\n      \"events\": [\n        {\n          \"name\": \"<string>\",\n          \"timestamp\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\",\n          \"attributes\": {}\n        }\n      ]\n    }\n  ]\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.example.com/v1/projects/{project_identifier}/spans")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"data\": [\n    {\n      \"name\": \"<string>\",\n      \"context\": {\n        \"trace_id\": \"<string>\",\n        \"span_id\": \"<string>\"\n      },\n      \"span_kind\": \"<string>\",\n      \"start_time\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\",\n      \"end_time\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\",\n      \"status_code\": \"<string>\",\n      \"id\": \"\",\n      \"parent_id\": \"<string>\",\n      \"status_message\": \"\",\n      \"attributes\": {},\n      \"events\": [\n        {\n          \"name\": \"<string>\",\n          \"timestamp\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\",\n          \"attributes\": {}\n        }\n      ]\n    }\n  ]\n}")
  .asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.example.com/v1/projects/{project_identifier}/spans")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"data\": [\n    {\n      \"name\": \"<string>\",\n      \"context\": {\n        \"trace_id\": \"<string>\",\n        \"span_id\": \"<string>\"\n      },\n      \"span_kind\": \"<string>\",\n      \"start_time\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\",\n      \"end_time\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\",\n      \"status_code\": \"<string>\",\n      \"id\": \"\",\n      \"parent_id\": \"<string>\",\n      \"status_message\": \"\",\n      \"attributes\": {},\n      \"events\": [\n        {\n          \"name\": \"<string>\",\n          \"timestamp\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\",\n          \"attributes\": {}\n        }\n      ]\n    }\n  ]\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "total_received": 123,
  "total_queued": 123
}
"<string>"
"<string>"
"<string>"
{
  "detail": [
    {
      "loc": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "msg": "<string>",
      "type": "<string>",
      "input": "<unknown>",
      "ctx": {}
    }
  ]
}

Path Parameters

​
project_identifier
string
required

The project identifier: either project ID or project name. If using a project name, it cannot contain slash (/), question mark (?), or pound sign (#) characters.

Body

application/json
​
data
Span · object[]
required

Response

Successful Response

​
total_received
integer
required

Total number of spans received

​
total_queued
integer
required

Number of spans successfully queued for insertion