OTLP Trace — 48-Span Linear Chain (json)
A single-service trace 48 levels deep — a recursive GraphQL-style resolver where every span is the child of the one before it. A depth fixture for waterfall renderers, tree-layout code and any parser that recurses over parentage.
{
"resourceSpans": [
{
"resource": {
"attributes": [
{
"key": "service.name",
"value": {
"stringValue": "checkout-api"
}
},
{
"key": "service.namespace",
"value": {
"stringValue": "shop"
}
},
{
"key": "service.version",
"value": {
"stringValue": "1.14.2"
}
},
{
"key": "service.instance.id",
"value": {
"stringValue": "checkout-api-7d9f4c-2xk"
}
},
{
"key": "deployment.environment.name",
"value": {
"stringValue": "staging"
}
},
{
"key": "host.name",
"value": {
"stringValue": "node-a1"
}
},
{
"key": "host.ip",
"value": {
"stringValue": "192.0.2.11"
}
},
{
"key": "cloud.region",
"value": {Specifications
- Spans
- 48
- Depth
- 48
- Shape
- linear chain
- Services
- 1
- Root Duration Ms
- 96
- Seed
- none (deterministic offsets)
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Render or walk the span tree and measure depth handling.
- Expected result
- The tree is 48 levels deep with exactly one leaf, and a renderer that recurses without a depth guard is exercised without being handed an impossible depth.
What is a .json file?
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight, text-based data-interchange format representing objects, arrays, strings, numbers, booleans, and null. It is language-independent, human-readable, and the dominant format for web APIs and configuration. It requires a single well-formed root value.
How to use this file
Use an example JSON file to test parsers and serializers, schema validation, Unicode and number-precision handling, and API request or response processing.
How to use this file for testing
“OTLP Trace — 48-Span Linear Chain (json)” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Observability, JSON parsing, Performance testing. Structured and plain-text telemetry with known timestamps, levels, request identifiers, and error states for testing log ingestion, correlation, dashboards, and alert pipelines.
Documented properties for this file: JSON · 38,968 bytes. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Telemetry fixtures use fixed trace IDs, span IDs, and timestamps so ingestion is reproducible run to run. Point your collector, parser, or query layer at the file and assert the documented span tree, metric families, or severity mix; service and host names are invented.
Code examples
import json
with open("otlp-trace-deep-chain.json") as f:
data = json.load(f)
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