{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/jaeger-io/main/json-schema/jaeger-span-schema.json",
  "title": "Jaeger Span",
  "description": "A single unit of work in a distributed trace as modeled by the Jaeger api_v2 / jaeger-idl model.proto. Each span belongs to a trace and a process (service) and may reference parent spans.",
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["traceId", "spanId", "operationName", "startTime", "duration"],
  "properties": {
    "traceId": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "16-byte trace identifier as a 32-character hex string."
    },
    "spanId": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "8-byte span identifier as a 16-character hex string."
    },
    "operationName": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Human-readable operation name (often the RPC/method name)."
    },
    "references": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/SpanRef" }
    },
    "flags": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Trace flags bitfield aligned with W3C Trace Context."
    },
    "startTime": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time"
    },
    "duration": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Span duration as a protobuf Duration string (e.g. '0.250s')."
    },
    "tags": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/KeyValue" }
    },
    "logs": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/Log" }
    },
    "process": { "$ref": "#/$defs/Process" }
  },
  "$defs": {
    "SpanRef": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "traceId": { "type": "string" },
        "spanId": { "type": "string" },
        "refType": { "type": "string", "enum": ["CHILD_OF", "FOLLOWS_FROM"] }
      }
    },
    "KeyValue": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "key": { "type": "string" },
        "vType": { "type": "string", "enum": ["STRING", "BOOL", "INT64", "FLOAT64", "BINARY"] },
        "vStr": { "type": "string" },
        "vBool": { "type": "boolean" },
        "vInt64": { "type": "integer" },
        "vFloat64": { "type": "number" },
        "vBinary": { "type": "string", "contentEncoding": "base64" }
      }
    },
    "Log": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "timestamp": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" },
        "fields": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/KeyValue" }
        }
      }
    },
    "Process": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["serviceName"],
      "properties": {
        "serviceName": { "type": "string" },
        "tags": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/KeyValue" }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}