alt Hacker NewsTraces have a very specific data model, and corresponding limitations, which don't really accommodate log events/messages of arbitrary size. The access model for traces is also fundamentally different vs. that of logs.
Traces have a very specific data model, and corresponding limitations, which don't really accommodate log events/messages of arbitrary size. The access model for traces is also fundamentally different vs. that of logs.
There are practical limitations mostly with backend analysis tools. OTel does not define a limit on how large a span is. It’s quite common in LLM Observability to capture full prompts and LLM responses as attributes on spans, for example.