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feat(traces): show span events in the span panel and on the timeline - #1505
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Read the OTel events recorded on spans (including `exception`) from the traces table. The span detail panel gets an Events section with offsets from span start, attributes, and exception type, message and stack trace. The trace timeline marks where each event happened along its span's bar, with exceptions highlighted. Two queries back this: spanEventsQuery loads one span's events, keyed by the span's sorting-key columns and exact start second, and spanEventsByTraceQuery loads event names and times for the whole trace for the markers. spanDetailQuery now also returns the stored SpanName, since the display name is rewritten for HTTP spans.
Maple review🟢 Confidence 9/10 · safe to merge Surfaces OTel span events in the trace view: new per-span and per-trace warehouse queries, an Events section in the span panel, and exception markers on timeline bars. Additive and read-only apart from one marker label defect. The open
Findings🔵 Note · F1 · Negative event offsets render as
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| Issue | Service | Occurrences | File |
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| @maple/web/errors/WarehouseInvalidInputError | maple-web | 9 | apps/web/src/lib/services/atoms/warehouse-query-atoms.ts |
After this merges, Maple checks whether they stop.
Production traffic of the changed files (last 7 days)
| File | Calls/day | Busiest operations |
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packages/query-engine/src/__sql_baseline__/catalog.sql |
1.8k | POST 833/day, 3.9% errGET 636/day, 2.7% errGET 149/day, 0.1% err |
packages/query-engine/src/benchmark/builders.ts |
785 | GET 636/day, 2.7% errGET 149/day, 0.1% err |
packages/domain/src/http/query-engine.ts |
8 | errorsByType 8/day, 1.8% err |
apps/api/src/routes/queries.ts |
3 | spanDetail 3/day, 0.0% err |
Telemetry this change adds and removes (1)
- ➕ span name
QueryEngine.getTraceSpanEvents·apps/web/src/api/warehouse/traces.ts:784
What was checked
parseSpanEventszips the threeEvents*arrays by index and tolerates non-JSON attributes (packages/query-engine/src/span-events.ts)- Events window
traceStartTime + totalDurationMsreaches every span start, sincetraceWallClockMsreturns the earliest-start/latest-end bounds - Marker map is keyed by the same span id the hierarchy rows carry, so markers land on the matching bar
Observability coverage: 2 of 2 changes observable
| Change | Kind | Observable | Evidence |
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traceSpanEvents and spanEvents HTTP endpoints (apps/api/src/routes/internal/query-engine.http.ts) |
inbound endpoint | yes | Same route group's operations (spanDetail, errorsByType) already appear in Maple's operations rollup for maple-web |
warehouse reads of traces for span events |
db query | yes | Every query-engine route executes through the route file's shared runQuery/runQueryFirst helper, which is what Maple already reports these operations from |
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/lib/traces/span-events.ts:
- Line 40: Update formatEventOffset to preserve microsecond precision for
offsets of one second or more, while keeping the existing formatting for smaller
offsets; add a test covering the one-second boundary and a fractional offset
such as 1000.123 ms.
Review comments at @packages/query-engine/src/ch/queries/errors.ts:
- Line 599: Update the event-row query in spanHierarchyQuery to order rows by
span start time before applying the limit, so its capped results correspond to
the earliest displayed spans and their event markers remain available.
Review comments at @packages/ui/src/components/traces/trace-timeline-row.tsx:
- Line 290: Position event markers using the event timestamp and viewport
coordinates, or the bar’s unclamped timeline transform, rather than applying
marker.percent inside the clamped bar. Add a test for a span extending beyond
the viewport that verifies the marker remains at the correct timeline position.
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…ents cap - Event markers now sit on the trace's time axis with the bar's --vp0/--vpk transform instead of a percent of the bar box, which is clamped to the view when zoomed, so they no longer drift off their time. - spanEventsByTraceQuery orders by span start before its LIMIT, like spanHierarchyQuery, so the cap keeps the spans the timeline shows. - formatEventOffset keeps microseconds for offsets of a second or more.
Maple review🟢 Confidence 8/10 · likely safe to merge Surfaces OTel span events: an Events section in the span panel (with exception stack traces) and event markers on the timeline, backed by two new query-engine routes. Nothing new is wrong with the change; the earlier marker-label defect is still present at this head, and the open
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- Around line 298-301: Update the span rendered for event markers in the trace
timeline row to be keyboard-focusable with tabIndex={0}, and use the tooltip’s
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- Marker labels render a pre-span event as `-3.0ms`, not `+-3.0ms`. - Event markers are tab-focusable so keyboard users reach their tooltip, and unnamed events get a label. - inspect_span eval fixtures carry spanDetailQuery's new rawSpanName column; without it the row failed the compiled query's schema.
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F1 fixed in the latest push: marker labels sign negative offsets ( |
Maple review🟢 Confidence 8/10 · likely safe to merge Surfaces OTel span events in the trace view: an Events section in the span panel and event ticks on the timeline bars, backed by two new
Before merge
Fixed since the last review
Production impactOpen errors in the changed files
After this merges, Maple checks whether they stop. Production traffic of the changed files (last 7 days)
Telemetry this change adds and removes (1)
What was checked
Observability coverage: 3 of 3 changes observable
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Markers on three spans (plain events, an exception, a pre-span event) and the Events panel for the selected span, so /lab/timeline shows the feature without a seeded warehouse.
Maple review🟢 Confidence 9/10 · safe to merge Adds span events to the trace view: an events panel, timeline markers, and the queries behind them. The three files changed since the last review are dev-only lab scaffolding and are safe to merge. The open
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What
OTel span events (including
exceptionevents) are ingested intotracesbut never shown. This surfaces them in the trace view.exceptionevents show type, message and a collapsible, copyable stack trace.How
spanEventsQuery: one span's events, filtered on thetracessorting key (OrgId, ServiceName, SpanName) plus the span's exact start second, so it seeks a few granules. Loaded when a span is opened.spanEventsByTraceQuery: event names and timestamps for every span of a trace that has events (no attributes), for the markers. Filters byTraceIdinside the trace's time window and relies onidx_trace_id.spanDetailQuerynow also returnsrawSpanName, because the displayspanNameis rewritten for HTTP spans and can't key the events query.spanEvents/traceSpanEventsquery-engine routes, SQL baseline and benchmark builders updated.Verification
span-events.test.ts,ch.test.ts,span-detail.test.ts(query-engine),span-event-markers.test.ts(ui),span-events.test.ts(web) all pass.spanEventsByTraceQueryhas not been benchmarked against real data (bun run bench:queries).Need help on this PR? Tag
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