Span Property Math
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Description
### Problem Statement
We occasionally have span properties that we would like to perform some metric math on in the context of a single span, rather than across spans.
For example, if I have a span that has both "points" and "factor" properties, it would be great to be able to perform the math `sum(span.points * span.factor)`
The current workaround is to use something like `sum(span.points) * avg(span.factor)`, but this of course produces significantly different results from executing the math on each span before combining.
Ex. with 5 spans that have the following values:
| points | factor |
|--------|--------|
| 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 100 | 5 |
`sum(span.points * span.factor)` produces 504, while `sum(span.points) * avg(span.factor)` produces 187.2
### Solution Brainstorm
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are identified in the issue. Start by locating the span-property aggregation and metric-math implementation, then determine how per-span multiplication could be represented; done means supporting expressions such as sum(span.points * span.factor) with results matching the example.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- observability
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100