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Closes #61.

API-started work now produces connected HTTP, workflow, child-workflow and activity-attempt spans. All three workers register deterministic tracing interceptors and replay-suppressed sinks. Continue-as-new and background continuations carry span links. Attributes are allowlisted, collector failures preserve execution results, and worker shutdown flushes the bounded exporter. No tracing SDK was added; @temporalio/testing is the only new development dependency.

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The complete fork validation passed on exact PR head 5979fb3abdcc7e404edc41e8118bd3c6c8a25916, using the repository's pinned Node version:

  • npm run check
  • npm test: API 3,627 passed / 17 skipped; web 3,930 passed; worker 236 passed; shared-package and script suites passed.
  • npm run build
  • npm run pack:dry-run -w run-spaceapp
  • The observability fault-injection suite also passed separately. The API Vitest subpath alias resolves the import regression without changing assertions.

Hygiene preflight and whitespace checks passed. The fork run executes the unchanged check/test/build commands on the submitted source. It excludes the maintainer-owned export provenance pipeline, as allowed for external PRs by issue #61; it is not an upstream check approval.

Execution evidence

A separate passing run exercised a real loopback HTTP POST /api/turns, the production TemporalTurnStarter, production dummyTurnWorkflow, and both production dummy activities against a real Temporal test server and Jaeger all-in-one. Jaeger returned four connected spans in trace bdaa1c6268f8e01434d8e967f1f9b579. Assertions verify the HTTP → workflow → activity parentage and that the prompt sentinel is absent from exported payloads. The run log contains the captured OTLP batches and Jaeger response. The fork-only evidence harness is outside this PR's diff.

That run uses in-memory API storage and the built-in dummy runtime; no paid model-provider turn was performed. The screenshot below shows the same captured OTLP spans loaded into the local Jaeger viewer, with the HTTP request, production dummy workflow, and two activity spans connected in one trace.

Actual API turn through the production dummy workflow and both activities

The integration suite additionally checks retries, child parents, continuation links, redaction, replay with zero exports, replay of pre-instrumentation history, and collector outage behavior. The existing screenshot below shows its actual exported spans using a synthetic HTTP route, real Temporal execution, and stub activities; it is not the newer production-route trace.

Jaeger trace from the synthetic HTTP and real Temporal integration

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  • New Features
    • Added optional trace export for API requests, workflows, and activities.
    • Trace context now carries across child workflows and background continuations, with links connecting related operations.
    • Exported spans include filtered metadata; trace export failures do not affect processing results, and replay does not generate duplicate traces.
  • Documentation
    • Added setup guidance for configuring an optional OTLP trace collector, including URL requirements and export behavior.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds Temporal workflow spans to the main and memory workers, extends activity trace propagation, and links background continuations to their source traces. It also updates OTLP span-link serialization, tests, package exports, and observability documentation.

Changes: Temporal trace export

Layer / File(s) Summary
Trace context and contracts
apps/api/src/trace-context.ts, apps/api/tests/trace-correlation.test.ts, apps/worker/src/workflow-trace-context.ts, packages/contracts/src/schemas.ts, packages/contracts/package.json
The API returns the registry’s traceparent unchanged. Worker helpers extract and validate trace context and filter attributes. Dummy-turn inputs accept an optional traceLink, and the contracts package exports the observability subpath.
Workflow spans and worker wiring
apps/worker/src/workflow-tracing.ts, apps/worker/src/workflow-tracing-worker.ts, apps/worker/src/worker.ts, apps/worker/src/memory-*-worker.ts, apps/worker/tests/fixtures/tracing-workflows.ts, apps/worker/tests/workflow-tracing.test.ts, apps/worker/package.json, apps/worker/vitest.config.ts
Workflow interceptors derive trace context, record workflow spans, and propagate context to activities and child workflows. All three workers configure workflow tracing. Tests cover span relationships, replay behavior, disabled tracing, and exporter failures.
Activity propagation and continuation links
apps/worker/src/activity-observability.ts, apps/worker/src/room-background-continuation.ts, apps/worker/tests/activity-observability.test.ts, apps/worker/tests/room-background-continuation.test.ts, apps/worker/tests/room-continuation-fixture.ts
Activity spans use propagated trace context and filtered attributes. Background continuations retain a link to a valid source trace and receive a new traceparent. Tests cover continuation retries and exporter failures.
OTLP links, lifecycle, and validation
packages/runtime/src/otlp-span-exporter.ts, packages/runtime/tests/otlp-span-exporter.test.ts, apps/worker/tests/memory-maintenance-worker.test.ts, docs/configuration-reference.md, docs/quality/observability.md
The exporter serializes valid span links and schedules queue draining asynchronously. Tests cover exporter flushes, queue limits, and worker shutdown. Documentation describes trace export configuration, propagation, replay behavior, and coverage.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant API as API request
  participant Workflow as Temporal workflow
  participant Activity as Temporal activity
  participant Sink as Workflow tracing sink
  participant Exporter as OTLP span exporter
  API->>Workflow: Pass traceparent in workflow input or memo
  Workflow->>Activity: Propagate trace context
  Workflow->>Sink: Record workflow span
  Sink->>Exporter: Export workflow span
  Activity->>Exporter: Export activity span
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Possibly related issues

  • oll4com/spaceapp#60: The PR adds @temporalio/testing and uses a Temporal test environment to test workflow tracing and replay suppression.

Possibly related PRs

  • oll4com/spaceapp#265: Both PRs implement trace propagation and OTLP spans across API requests, Temporal workflows, and activity attempts.
  • oll4com/spaceapp#286: Both PRs change worker tracing, continuation links, and OTLP export behavior.
  • oll4com/spaceapp#221: Both PRs address API-to-Temporal trace correlation, activity attempts, and continuation links.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 90a90

Documentation should be updated to accurately describe workflow tracing before or shortly after merge.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: connecting API, Temporal workflow, and activity-attempt spans in OTLP traces.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #61 coding requirements are met by the reviewed changes. All three worker entrypoints configure the shared OTLP exporter and workflow tracing. The exporter retains bounded queuing, drop statisti…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes remain within issue #61. The API traceparent correction supports API-to-worker parentage. The shared exporter link and flush changes support worker export. The maintenance-worker shutdown …
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Explanation

Issue #61 coding requirements are met by the reviewed changes. All three worker entrypoints configure the shared OTLP exporter and workflow tracing. The exporter retains bounded queuing, drop statistics, timeouts, failure isolation, link serialization, and the idle-flush fix. The workflow and activity interceptors cover API parentage, retries, child workflows, continue-as-new links, background links, replay suppression, and allowlisted attributes. workflow-tracing.test.ts uses a local HTTP collector and Temporal test environment and checks these behaviors, including legacy replay and collector outage handling. The required documentation is updated. @temporalio/testing is test support named by issue #61, and no tracing SDK was added. The unconfirmed full-suite rerun and omitted production manual turn are not concrete unmet coding requirements.

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The changes remain within issue #61. The API traceparent correction supports API-to-worker parentage. The shared exporter link and flush changes support worker export. The maintenance-worker shutdown fix preserves exporter cleanup on worker failure. The contract field, tests, package export, and documentation support tracing propagation, validation, or operation. No CLI or Browser Host spans, metrics or log export, sampling configuration, or trace-ID database columns were added.

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Minor · Update the stale "Workflow code is unchanged" and replay statements. · observability.md:236-238

docs/quality/observability.md:236-238
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Update the stale "Workflow code is unchanged" and replay statements.

This PR adds apps/worker/src/workflow-tracing.ts as a workflow interceptor module. The worker bundles it when an exporter is configured. The new ## Temporal OTLP traces section describes this behavior. These older statements now contradict it:

  • Lines 236-238 say the workflow bundle only gains the optional contract field.
  • Lines 242-249 say no file the workflow bundle imports was changed.
  • Lines 223-224 say activity spans carry the activity type, outcome and attempt only.

The replay claims matter to operators who decide whether to run scripts/temporal-replay-check.mjs before deploy. Revise these passages to match the new tracing behavior, or point them to the new section.

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Update the observability documentation’s workflow-bundle, replay, and
activity-span statements to reflect the conditional workflow interceptor
behavior described in the “Temporal OTLP traces” section. Clarify when the
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- Around line 236-238: Update the observability documentation’s workflow-bundle,
replay, and activity-span statements to reflect the conditional workflow
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Minor · Close maintenance-worker spans in finally. · memory-maintenance-worker.ts:45-55

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Close maintenance-worker spans in finally.

When worker.run() rejects, execution skips await spans?.close() and enters the outer catch. The exporter therefore does not perform its final flush, so accepted spans can remain queued during worker shutdown.

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-    await worker.run();
-    stopReloadWatch();
-    await spans?.close();
+    try {
+      await worker.run();
+    } finally {
+      stopReloadWatch();
+      await spans?.close();
+    }
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Thank you for contributing and for sharing your work. This PR is awaiting maintainer review; the automated review does not replace that step.

For the bounty issues, we review PRs in the order they were opened, under the terms on the issue. An earlier PR that misses an acceptance criterion does not block a later complete solution. Please include the checks you ran yourself, their results, your environment, and any limitations, if those details are not already in the PR.

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Thank you for the time and care you put into this pull request.
We have decided to end the SpaceApp bounty programme, so pull requests made for the bounty issues will not be reviewed, merged or paid, and we are closing this one.
We are sorry for the work this affects, and thank you again for your interest in SpaceApp.

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[$600] Export worker and workflow spans over OTLP: one trace from API request to every Temporal activity

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