# Custom Distributed transactions linked with instrumented spans

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-distributed-transactions-linked-with-instrumented-spans/209584>\
**Category:** APM\
**Tags:** nodejs\
**Created:** [November 26, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-distributed-transactions-linked-with-instrumented-spans/209584 "2019-11-26T21:46:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![elastichooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a6a055/32.png) [@elastichooch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elastichooch)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-distributed-transactions-linked-with-instrumented-spans/209584/1 "2019-11-26T21:46:14Z")

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**APM Agent language and version** : node.js 3.2 and rum 4.6  
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**Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior. Please include screenshots (if relevant)**: I want to create custom transactions that the instrumented http transactions are linked to. Currently, the instrumented transactions are their own transactions.

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**Author:** ![elastichooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a6a055/32.png) [@elastichooch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elastichooch)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-distributed-transactions-linked-with-instrumented-spans/209584/2 "2019-11-27T21:30:01Z")

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I have a react application along with services in node.js and java. A button click in react will fire off several http requests to the node and java services in parallel. I would like to have a single transaction that ties it all together. One trace per click.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-distributed-transactions-linked-with-instrumented-spans/209584/3 "2019-12-18T17:30:01Z")

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