get_tracer() | Respan Docs

Signature

1 get_tracer() -> Tracer

Returns the underlying OpenTelemetry Tracer instance for creating spans manually when decorators are not sufficient.

Example

1 from respan import Respan, get_client
2 
3 respan = Respan(api_key="your-api-key")
4 client = get_client()
5 tracer = client.get_tracer()
6 
7 with tracer.start_as_current_span("custom_operation") as span:
8     span.set_attribute("custom.key", "value")
9     # Your logic here
10     result = 42
11     span.set_attribute("custom.result", result)

Manual spans are exported through the same processor pipeline as decorator-created spans. Prefer decorators for standard use cases and use get_tracer() only when you need fine-grained control over span lifecycle.