What is `service` supposed to be?

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What is `service` supposed to be? #20

Closed samsondav closed 6 years ago

samsondav commented 6 years ago

In the docs it just says "default service name" which I don't understand.

What does this setting actually do?

zachdaniel commented 6 years ago

https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/api/ Has a bit more information, but service is used to categorize trace data on datadog's end. Traces are grouped by service first, and then by resource

samsondav commented 6 years ago

Thanks!