topic Re: Spans Bucket Assignment: Is this possible? in Open Q&A

Spans Bucket Assignment: Is this possible?

ASE — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:11:47 GMT

Right now, we have one single default_spans bucket.

We would like to create separate Spans Buckets for each of our services.

I was able to create several Spans Buckets in Storage Management.

However, when I try to create Spans Bucket Rules, I'm not finding a "Bucket Assignment" section for Spans.

Is there a way to assign Spans to specific Spans Buckets, similar to what we can do with Logs?

Is this just not possible to do in the UI?

Thank you.

Re: Spans Bucket Assignment: Is this possible?

Dant3 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:55:06 GMT

AFIK is possible when you have the rate card for Spans on Grail, you can set the Bucket and create an OpenPipeline rule to handle the traffic

Re: Spans Bucket Assignment: Is this possible?

ASE — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:27:50 GMT

Update:

A few days after my original post, as part of the latest Dynatrace SaaS release, we gained the ability to create Spans Buckets via the OpenPipeline app.

I still don't see a way to do this via the UI, similar to how it's done with Logs.

Re: Spans Bucket Assignment: Is this possible?

Akhil-Jayendran — Sun, 25 May 2025 20:49:59 GMT

Hello ASE,

But still you can assign the Spans into custom bucket using Openpipeline app UI right (by clicking +Pipeline option) ?
https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/analyze-explore-automate/distributed-tracing/storage#store

BR,
Akhil

Re: Spans Bucket Assignment: Is this possible?

christian_k — Mon, 26 May 2025 08:56:04 GMT

Hello ASE

In addition to Akhil's message below:

When creating a pipeline for Spans, you can set up bucket assignment similar to other datatypes (see screenshot below)

Best Regards
Christian