# Span details not visible

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/span-details-not-visible/377903>\
**Category:** APM\
**Tags:** open-telemetry\
**Created:** [May 7, 2025, 12:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/span-details-not-visible/377903 "2025-05-07T12:16:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![meghananagaraja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@meghananagaraja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/meghananagaraja)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 12:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/span-details-not-visible/377903/1 "2025-05-07T12:16:29Z")

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Dear All,

I am using open-telemetry to collect traces and pushing them to APM-server. So if I set span kind as SERVER, I will be able to see span details in trace waterfall view. Any other kind of span (INTERNAL, CLIENT etc.) will not show span details. Any reason why?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/1/41a62f21fad8110d8657460d2f5258928d0e5e29.png)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/4/84af4e3705151996a90fdfa796406ec1aae1511e.png)

Regards  
Meghana