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Method: projects.patchTraces
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Sends trace spans to Cloud Trace. Spans cannot be updated. If the trace ID and span ID already exist, an additional copy of the span will be stored.
HTTP request
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PATCH https://cloudtrace.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{projectId}/traces
The URLs use gRPC Transcoding syntax.
Path parameters
Parameters
projectId
string
Required. ID of the Cloud project where the trace data is stored.
Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource projectId:
Request body
The request body contains an instance of Traces .
Response body
If successful, the response body is an empty JSON object.
Authorization scopes
Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/trace.append
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
For more information, see the Authentication Overview .
Traces
List of new or updated traces.
JSON representation
{
"traces" : [
{
object (Trace )
}
]
}
Fields
traces[]
object (Trace )
List of traces.
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