Last updated: September 14, 2026
Span Event Metrics
dash0.span.events
Counts the number of span events ingested by Dash0.
View the dash0.span.events metric in Dash0
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Instrument | Counter |
| Unit | {span_event} |
| Stability |  |
dash0.span.events is a synthetic metric: it is not stored as a metric time
series, but computed on-the-fly from the ingested tracing data. It can be
filtered and grouped by any span event or resource attribute.
Deprecated PromQL alias: dash0_span_events_total.
This synthetic metric does not expose attributes by default. You can group by span attributes and resource attributes using PromQL aggregations.
It is computed from the telemetry that reached Dash0, so sampling applied before ingestion also reduces what it reports.
Counters always start from zero regardless of query timeframe and represent only the increase over time, providing a clear view of trends without retaining absolute counts.