Trace Context
This repository is associated with the Trace
Context specification,
which specifies a distributed tracing context propagation format.
Trace Context v1 has W3C Recommendation status.
The next version of specification is being developed in this repository.
The current draft of the Trace Context Specification from this repository’s main branch is published to https://w3c.github.io/trace-context/.
Explanations and justification for decisions made in this specification are written down in the Rationale document.
We appreciate feedback and contributions. Please make sure to read rationale
documents when you have a question about particular decision made in
specification.
This specification defines formats to pass trace context information across
systems. Our goal is to share this with the community so that various tracing
and diagnostics products can operate together.
There are few open source and commercial implementations of this trace context specification
available.
A simplistic regex-based implementation can be found in the test folder. This
implementation has 100% compliance to the test suite.
.NET Framework will ship trace context specification support in the upcoming
version. See
Activity
for implementation details.
A list of all currently implementations can be found here.
See Why
See Contributing.md for details.