Zipkin · Schema
Annotation
An event with a timestamp explaining latency in a span.
Distributed TracingObservabilityOpen-SourceMicroservices
Properties
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| timestamp | integer | Epoch microseconds of this event |
| value | string | Event value, usually a short description |
JSON Schema
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zipkin/refs/heads/main/json-schema/zipkin-api-v2-annotation-schema.json",
"title": "Annotation",
"description": "An event with a timestamp explaining latency in a span.",
"type": "object",
"required": ["timestamp", "value"],
"properties": {
"timestamp": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Epoch microseconds of this event"
},
"value": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Event value, usually a short description"
}
}
}
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