[ekzy]

I’ve implemented OTEL for background jobs, so async jobs that get picked up from the DB where I store the trace context in the DB and pass it along to multiple async jobs. For some jobs that fail and retry with a backoff strategy, they can take many hours and we can see the traces fine in grafana. Each job create its own span but they are all within the same trace.

Works well for us, I’m not sure I understand the issue you’re facing?

[ekzy]

Ok after re reading I think you have issues with long running spans, I think you should break down your spans in smaller chunks. But a trace can take many hours or days, and be analysed even when it’s not finished