Real-time traces are one of Laminar’s most powerful features, allowing you to see spans as they’re being executed without waiting for the top-level span to complete. This provides immediate visibility into trace data during development and debugging processes, which is especially valuable when:
Laminar uses OpenTelemetry for trace collection and processing. By default, it uses BatchSpanProcessor, which buffers and sends traces in batches to optimize performance:
Traces are collected and stored temporarily on the client side
Data is sent periodically to the Laminar backend
There’s a small delay between span completion and dashboard visibility
The delay depends on batch configuration (flush interval and batch size)
Real-time traces are currently available only in the Laminar cloud platform.