public sealed class SpanContext : IMessage<SpanContext>, IEquatable<SpanContext>, IDeepCloneable<SpanContext>, IBufferMessage, IMessage
Reference documentation and code samples for the Google Cloud Monitoring v3 API class SpanContext.
The context of a span. This is attached to an
[Exemplar][google.api.Distribution.Exemplar]
in [Distribution][google.api.Distribution] values during aggregation.
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