Allow viewing a single span without loading the full parent trace
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Description
Problem Statement
When working with large frontend traces (thousands of spans), the customer wants to open and view a single span on its own, without loading and rendering the entire parent trace. Currently, clicking a span in Explore → Traces always opens the full parent trace; for these large traces that is overwhelming and makes it hard to focus on the specific span they need. In their words: "I want this trace, I don't care about parent traces."
Solution Brainstorm
A way to open and inspect a single span (and optionally its immediate children) directly, without rendering the full parent trace.
Product Area
Explore
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start in Explore → Traces, where clicking a span currently opens its full parent trace. Define how a single span, optionally with immediate children, should open and render without loading the parent trace; done means the focused span can be inspected independently on large traces.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- frontend, observability
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100