Trace Context Specification

This repository is associated with the Trace Context specification.

Specification for distributed tracing context propagation format:

• Trace Context Report. Status: Working Draft.
  • Rationale document
  • Changes are tracked on GitHub, communicated in meetings and e-mails distribution list.

Team Communication

See communication

We appreciate feedback and contributions. Please make sure to read rationale documents when you have a question about particular decision made in specification.

Goal

This specification defines formats to pass trace context information across systems. Our goal is to share this with the community so that various tracing and diagnostics products can operate together.

References

• Cloud Events define distributed tracing extension

Reference Implementations

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Why are we doing this

See Why

Contributing

See Contributing.md for details.