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e48d9b2b39 feat(traces): annotate span events and exceptions on the trace timeline (#13715)
Fixes #3764

Supersedes #13195 (stale base, unsigned CLA, and non-rendering — see
Units below). The event-parsing and exception-detection approach from
that PR is reused, credited via `Co-authored-by`.

## What this adds

- **Trace waterfall** — a marker per span event, positioned against the
trace window alongside the span bar. Clicking one selects its span.
- **Sidebar mini-timeline** — the same events re-plotted against the
*span's own* duration, above the Events tab. Answers "where within the
span did this fire?", which the waterfall can't show for short spans and
the table only shows as absolute timestamps. Clicking a marker expands
the matching row.
- **Exceptions stand out** — OTel semconv detection (`exception` name or
any flattened `exception.*` attribute) renders in the error token; other
events in amber. Both are existing registered tokens, so theming is
automatic and no new tokens were added.

Issue #3764 asks for "dots for events **and** exceptions", so all events
are marked with exceptions emphasised, rather than filtering to
exceptions only.

## Units — why the previous attempt rendered nothing

A span event's `_timestamp` is raw OTLP `time_unix_nano`
(**nanoseconds**), stored unconverted:

Frontend span timing is **microseconds**. The same field name therefore
means different units on a span than on its events. #13195 compared the
two directly, so every marker landed ~1000x outside the window and was
silently dropped by the range filter — matching the "I couldn't see the
UI changes" report on that PR. The `ns → µs` conversion is now confined
to one composable and pinned by a regression test using nanosecond
fixtures.

Corroboration that events are nanoseconds: the sidebar's own events
table already divides the same field by `1e6` to render milliseconds.

## Structure

`web/src/composables/traces/useSpanEvents.ts` owns event semantics —
parse (array or JSON string), convert, classify — while each caller
supplies its own window. The two surfaces differ only in that window.
Events with no usable timestamp, or outside the window, are skipped
rather than pinned to an invented position.

## Verification

- `npm run type-check` — clean
- ESLint on changed files — 0 errors, 0 warnings
- `prettier --check` — conforms
- Vitest — **184 passed**: 27 new (`useSpanEvents.spec.ts`), 7 new
(`SpanBlock.spec.ts`), 7 new (`TraceDetailsSidebar.spec.ts`), rest
pre-existing

Pre-existing and untouched: three `no-dupe-keys` errors in
`eslint.config.js`, and a `vue/no-dupe-keys` warning for `activeTab` in
`TraceDetailsSidebar.vue` (confirmed present on unmodified `main`).

## Reviewer notes

- **Not yet validated against a live ingested trace.** That step is what
would have caught #13195, and it is the one gap here.
- Specifically worth checking: `gen_ai.*` events are constructed with
`_timestamp: 0` in the OTel processor's test fixtures. If real SDK data
does the same, LLM spans will show no markers (dropped rather than
mispositioned, by design). If that turns out to be real, the follow-up
is an explicit "N events without timestamps" affordance, not a
fabricated position.
- Marker clustering for very dense event sets is deliberately deferred
until real traces show it is needed.

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Co-authored-by: coyaSONG <66289470+coyaSONG@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-26 10:12:35 +00:00
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