newrelic / opentelemetry-exporter-go

New Relic's Golang OpenTelemetry Exporter
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Set spankind #54

Closed RichVanderwal closed 3 years ago

RichVanderwal commented 3 years ago

In the simple example, setting a "SpanKind" of "server" on the parent span will allow spans to be shown in the Summary view of the service in the New Relic UI. I've modified the sample application and the Getting Started guide in the README.md to reflect this.

Instead of seeing a blank Summary view, it'll look like this instead: image

Other changes include re-ordering and better grouping of tasks, and a typo fix near the end of the document.