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Impossible to view a whole trace's graph at once #168
Description
When looking at a trace (/traces/<id>), the graph only shows two spans (the root, and one child). Clicking on the child loads a new page that shows the child and its child. There is no way to view the entire trace's graph at once. Screenshot with example attached:
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dominikh commentedon May 8, 2016
Worse, the current design if the UI doesn't allow for displaying the entire tree at once, because the tree structure isn't visible. If each span had more than one child, one couldn't tell which span belonged to which.
emidoots commentedon May 10, 2016
Some clarification: Viewing a trace
/traces/<id>shows the root span (host1above) and all of its children. I can confirm this behavior as working withgo run ./examples/cmd/webapp-influxdb/main.gowhich shows:In your case, the root span
host1appears to have only one child spanhost2. Note thatprofile viewshows all spans in the trace, so these two views should differ.In response to the feature request of viewing all spans in a trace at once via this view, I agree it's a good idea.
dominikh commentedon May 10, 2016
Yes, this is a feature request, not a bug report. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough about that.
emidoots commentedon May 10, 2016
No trouble at all, my misunderstanding, and thank you for raising this issue 😄
solher commentedon Aug 26, 2016
What would be the current good practice? Have one root span and flatten the span tree in multiple children or wait for the feature to be implemented and keep a full span tree?