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Create spans in a batch

spans.batch(SpanBatchParams**kwargs) -> APIListSpan
POST/v5/spans/batch

Create multiple spans (up to 1000) in a single request and return the created spans.

Prefer this over repeated POST /v5/spans calls when ingesting many spans at once; use PUT /v5/spans/batch instead when a span with the same id may already exist, since this endpoint inserts new spans rather than overwriting. A batch larger than 1000 spans is rejected with a validation error. Each item follows the same id-generation and per-account dual-write rules as the single-span create, including that end_timestamp must not precede start_timestamp, which rejects the request with a 422. When the tracing service is the primary store, its 400, 413 and 422 rejections keep that status and detail, as does a 403 when the request carried its own API key, and every other failure returns a 503 with a Retry-After header. A batch that forms a cycle, or a span whose parent belongs to another trace, is rejected with 409 before either store is written. A parent outside the batch is looked up in Postgres, so that part of the check ends once the account’s spans stop being written there. Postgres rejects an id that already exists, while the tracing service treats the write as an upsert. Which writes the tracing service rejects depends in part on its storage engine: on Postgres deployments a NUL byte or invalid UTF-8 inside trace_id, id, parent_id or group_id fails the whole batch with a 400 naming the field, because replacing the byte would change the identity the response echoes; a NUL byte or invalid UTF-8 in any other field is replaced with U+FFFD and the span is persisted. ClickHouse deployments store the bytes verbatim.

Credential redaction: values in the free-form input, output, metadata, and expected objects, and in name, that are credential-shaped (bearer/JWT, API keys, connection-string passwords) or under a credential-named key are replaced with [REDACTED:credential] before the span is persisted, so the stored and returned span reflects the redacted value (EY 12.3).

ParametersExpand Collapse
items: Iterable[SpanCreateParam]
name: str
start_timestamp: datetime

When the span started. With trace_id and id it forms the span’s storage identity, so a span re-sent with a start_timestamp on another UTC day is stored as a second row that the store never collapses. Get span and trace detail return the newest version. Search returns the newest version whose start_timestamp falls in the queried window. Export, metrics and facets count both rows until the trace is deleted and re-sent.

formatdate-time
trace_id: str

id for grouping traces together, uuid is recommended

maxLength256
id: Optional[str]

The id of the span, at most 256 bytes. A value longer than 256 characters is refused here with a 422 before it is forwarded; a value within that count whose UTF-8 form exceeds 256 bytes is refused with a 400 naming the field once the tracing service is the account’s primary store, and accepted for accounts still written primarily to the legacy trace store.

maxLength256
application_interaction_id: Optional[str]

The optional application interaction ID this span belongs to

application_variant_id: Optional[str]

The optional application variant ID this span belongs to

end_timestamp: Optional[datetime]
formatdate-time
expected: Optional[Dict[str, object]]
group_id: Optional[str]

Reference to a group_id, at most 256 bytes. A value longer than 256 characters is refused here with a 422 before it is forwarded; a value within that count whose UTF-8 form exceeds 256 bytes is refused with a 400 naming the field once the tracing service is the account’s primary store, and accepted for accounts still written primarily to the legacy trace store.

maxLength256
input: Optional[Dict[str, object]]
metadata: Optional[Dict[str, object]]
obs_span_id: Optional[str]

W3C span id (16 lowercase hex chars) of the observability span this span executed in. Requires obs_trace_id.

obs_trace_id: Optional[str]

W3C trace id (32 lowercase hex chars) of the observability trace this span executed in, for correlating a business span with the infrastructure work it caused. Stored only by the sgp-traces service, so accounts still served by the legacy store accept the field and read it back as null.

output: Optional[Dict[str, object]]
parent_id: Optional[str]

Reference to a parent span_id

status: Optional[SpanStatus]
One of the following:
"SUCCESS"
"ERROR"
"CANCELED"
type: Optional[SpanType]
One of the following:
"TEXT_INPUT"
"TEXT_OUTPUT"
"COMPLETION_INPUT"
"COMPLETION"
"KB_RETRIEVAL"
"KB_INPUT"
"RERANKING"
"EXTERNAL_ENDPOINT"
"PROMPT_ENGINEERING"
"DOCUMENT_INPUT"
"MAP_REDUCE"
"DOCUMENT_SEARCH"
"DOCUMENT_PROMPT"
"CUSTOM"
"CODE_EXECUTION"
"DATA_MANIPULATION"
"EVALUATION"
"FILE_RETRIEVAL"
"KB_ADD_CHUNK"
"KB_MANAGEMENT"
"GUARDRAIL"
"OUTPUT_GUARDRAIL"
"TRACER"
"AGENT_TRACER"
"AGENT_WORKFLOW"
"STANDALONE"
ReturnsExpand Collapse
class APIListSpan: …
items: List[Span]
id: str
account_id: str
name: str
start_timestamp: datetime
formatdate-time
trace_id: str

id for grouping traces together, uuid is recommended

maxLength256
application_interaction_id: Optional[str]

The interaction ID this span belongs to

application_variant_id: Optional[str]

The id of the application variant this span belongs to

created_by: Optional[Identity]

The identity that created the entity.

id: str
type: Literal["user", "service_account"]
One of the following:
"user"
"service_account"
object: Optional[Literal["identity"]]
end_timestamp: Optional[datetime]
formatdate-time
expected: Optional[Dict[str, object]]
group_id: Optional[str]

Reference to a group_id

input: Optional[Dict[str, object]]
input_tokens: Optional[int]

Prompt tokens the producer reported for this span, absent when it reported none. Same quantity the input_tokens sort orders by.

maximum4294967295
minimum0
metadata: Optional[Dict[str, object]]
object: Optional[Literal["span"]]
obs_span_id: Optional[str]

W3C span id of the observability span this span executed in.

obs_trace_id: Optional[str]

W3C trace id of the observability trace this span executed in. Null for spans written without the edge, and for accounts still served by the legacy trace store.

output: Optional[Dict[str, object]]
output_tokens: Optional[int]

Completion tokens the producer reported for this span, absent when it reported none. Same quantity the output_tokens sort orders by.

maximum4294967295
minimum0
parent_id: Optional[str]

Reference to a parent span_id

status: Optional[SpanStatus]
One of the following:
"SUCCESS"
"ERROR"
"CANCELED"
type: Optional[SpanType]
One of the following:
"TEXT_INPUT"
"TEXT_OUTPUT"
"COMPLETION_INPUT"
"COMPLETION"
"KB_RETRIEVAL"
"KB_INPUT"
"RERANKING"
"EXTERNAL_ENDPOINT"
"PROMPT_ENGINEERING"
"DOCUMENT_INPUT"
"MAP_REDUCE"
"DOCUMENT_SEARCH"
"DOCUMENT_PROMPT"
"CUSTOM"
"CODE_EXECUTION"
"DATA_MANIPULATION"
"EVALUATION"
"FILE_RETRIEVAL"
"KB_ADD_CHUNK"
"KB_MANAGEMENT"
"GUARDRAIL"
"OUTPUT_GUARDRAIL"
"TRACER"
"AGENT_TRACER"
"AGENT_WORKFLOW"
"STANDALONE"
object: Optional[Literal["list"]]

Create spans in a batch

import os
from datetime import datetime
from scale_gp_beta import SGPClient

client = SGPClient(
    api_key=os.environ.get("SGP_API_KEY"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
)
api_list_span = client.spans.batch(
    items=[{
        "name": "name",
        "start_timestamp": datetime.fromisoformat("2019-12-27T18:11:19.117"),
        "trace_id": "trace_id",
    }],
)
print(api_list_span.items)
{
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "id",
      "account_id": "account_id",
      "name": "name",
      "start_timestamp": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
      "trace_id": "trace_id",
      "application_interaction_id": "application_interaction_id",
      "application_variant_id": "application_variant_id",
      "created_by": {
        "id": "id",
        "type": "user",
        "object": "identity"
      },
      "end_timestamp": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
      "expected": {
        "foo": "bar"
      },
      "group_id": "group_id",
      "input": {
        "foo": "bar"
      },
      "input_tokens": 0,
      "metadata": {
        "foo": "bar"
      },
      "object": "span",
      "obs_span_id": "obs_span_id",
      "obs_trace_id": "obs_trace_id",
      "output": {
        "foo": "bar"
      },
      "output_tokens": 0,
      "parent_id": "parent_id",
      "status": "SUCCESS",
      "type": "TEXT_INPUT"
    }
  ],
  "object": "list"
}
Returns Examples
{
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "id",
      "account_id": "account_id",
      "name": "name",
      "start_timestamp": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
      "trace_id": "trace_id",
      "application_interaction_id": "application_interaction_id",
      "application_variant_id": "application_variant_id",
      "created_by": {
        "id": "id",
        "type": "user",
        "object": "identity"
      },
      "end_timestamp": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
      "expected": {
        "foo": "bar"
      },
      "group_id": "group_id",
      "input": {
        "foo": "bar"
      },
      "input_tokens": 0,
      "metadata": {
        "foo": "bar"
      },
      "object": "span",
      "obs_span_id": "obs_span_id",
      "obs_trace_id": "obs_trace_id",
      "output": {
        "foo": "bar"
      },
      "output_tokens": 0,
      "parent_id": "parent_id",
      "status": "SUCCESS",
      "type": "TEXT_INPUT"
    }
  ],
  "object": "list"
}