# How to interpret "Time spent by span type"?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-interpret-time-spent-by-span-type/257766>\
**Category:** APM\
**Tags:** java\
**Created:** [December 6, 2020, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-interpret-time-spent-by-span-type/257766 "2020-12-06T09:15:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![giovere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@giovere](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/giovere)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-interpret-time-spent-by-span-type/257766/1 "2020-12-06T09:15:49Z")

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![TimeBySpan](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/8/981a23eb9438b47731c670ed1702eed5af8b2cfc.png)  
Kibana: 7.8.1  
APM-server: 7.8.1  
Elasticsearch: 7.8.1  
Java agent: 1.19.0

In my "Time spent by spant type" I get following entries:

- app - according to [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.x/transactions.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.x/transactions.html) app represents uninstrumented part of the code
- custom - instrumented code
- http - ?
- oracle - Oracle is obviously time spent in the DB, but is this time spent on DB-host itself?

Can you please tell me what http means in this context?

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**Author:** ![Eyal\_Koren](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eyal_koren/32/36830_2.png) [@Eyal\_Koren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eyal_Koren)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-interpret-time-spent-by-span-type/257766/2 "2020-12-06T12:55:33Z")

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> [@giovere](#):
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> Can you please tell me what http means in this context?

It means spans related to outgoing HTTP requests

> [@giovere](#):
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> oracle - Oracle is obviously time spent in the DB, but is this time spent on DB-host itself?

All data in this view comes from the traced service, meaning - it is based on client data, in this case Oracle DB client queries

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**Author:** ![giovere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@giovere](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/giovere)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-interpret-time-spent-by-span-type/257766/3 "2020-12-13T05:14:43Z")

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@Eyal_Koren  
Thank you for the clarification.  
I still do not quite understand `HTTP` part, can you please give few examples what it could include?

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**Author:** ![giovere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@giovere](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/giovere)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-interpret-time-spent-by-span-type/257766/4 "2020-12-16T07:15:42Z")

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Apparently HTTP ist the time spent in communication with other services through HTTP.

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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:** [January 6, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-interpret-time-spent-by-span-type/257766/5 "2021-01-06T03:15:42Z")

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