alt Hacker News> How would you represent metrics as traces?
Just instrument your meter implementation so each observation produces a span. Boom, free metric-derived traces.
> How would you represent metrics as traces?
Just instrument your meter implementation so each observation produces a span. Boom, free metric-derived traces.
Yup. Not a difficult problem to solve.
In the code define everything as a span with a name, scope (start-end), description and tags... and then you can easily dynamically produce traces, spans, logs or metrics based on what you need.