Standard from the W3C defining traceparent and tracestate headers, which carry distributed-trace identity across service boundaries. In Application Insights, the trace-id becomes operation_Id.
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Terms in this definition
- Standard deployment type
A Foundry deployment type billed per token that keeps processing of prompts and responses inside the Azure geography of the resource, meeting data residency needs at lower volumes.
- IDENTITY
A column property, written IDENTITY(seed, increment), that gives each new row the next number in a rising sequence. SCOPE_IDENTITY reports the latest value created in the current scope, and a rolled-back transaction still uses up the numbers it took.
- Application Insights
APM service within Azure Monitor providing application telemetry, availability tests, usage analytics and Application Map. Data from workspace-based instances lives in Log Analytics.
Related terms
- operation_Id
An Application Insights field naming the root operation, shared by every telemetry item belonging to one distributed trace. It corresponds to trace-id in W3C Trace Context.
- operation_ParentId
An Application Insights field holding the id of the request or dependency that is a telemetry item's direct parent, which establishes cause and effect. It corresponds to parent-id in W3C Trace Context.