Description

The OTEL_TRACE_PARENT option specifies the parent span context for the start span. If provided, the start span will be a child of the specified parent span, otherwise it will be a root span. This option is useful for continuing tracing among multiple applications.

Usage

Method	Syntax	IBM i	UNIX	Windows	z/OS
Command Line, Long Form	-otel_trace_parent trace_parent
Environment Variable	OTEL_TRACE_PARENT=trace_parent

Note

This option is NOT available on:

Solaris
HP-UX
z/OS

Values

value must be properly formatted as per Opentelemetry standards.

No default is set.

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