Hello, I can't seem to get Distributed Tracing to work. Im starting to wonder if I don't understand Distributed Tracing correctly. In my frontend I am creating a Transaction and a few spans to cover some JS functions. One of the JS functions makes a request to a backend Python service. I am sendin…

Hi James, As you already figured out, custom transactions does not support automatic instrumentations (XHR, Fetch, Resources) which means the user would have to start span and attach it to the transaction manually. And yes by setting { managed: true } in the startTransaction option the transaction…

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Ahchoo (James) November 7, 2019, 2:57pm 7

Thank you @vigneshshanmugam that worked perfectly!

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