Spans
Variants seen in the corpus:
Spansspans
Providers using this tag (15)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
APIs with this tag (15)
Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
EPA — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Spans APIThe Spans API from EPA — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — 1 operation(s) for spans.Comet Spans APISpan related resourcesArthurAI Spans APIThe Spans API from ArthurAI — 8 operation(s) for spans.Opik Spans APISpan related resourcesAleph Alpha Spans APIEndpoints for managing Spans. A Span is a single unit of work within a Trace and represents an individual o...Laminar SQL Query APIRun SELECT-only ClickHouse SQL over a project's observability data via POST /v1/sql/query. Authenticates wi...Datadog APM Spans APIThe Spans API from Datadog APM — 2 operation(s) for spans.Arize Phoenix spans APIThe spans API from Arize Phoenix — 6 operation(s) for spans.
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
Score breakdown
Frequency
40.8
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
51.7
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
3.3
strength of nearest seed neighbor
Related tags
Traces 9 co-occurrences
Tracing 6 co-occurrences
Workspaces 5 co-occurrences
Datasets 6 co-occurrences
Observability 7 co-occurrences
Monitoring 5 co-occurrences
Project 7 co-occurrences
Open-Source 8 co-occurrences
Where this tag comes from
Api tag15
Provider tag1
Openapi tag8
Openapi op tag37
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