# TraceSpanKind

> Tracon documentation. Tracon is a .NET package family that adds a control
> plane on Microsoft Agent Framework, published as NuGet packages that run
> inside your own ASP.NET Core application.
>
> Page: https://tracon.dev/http-api/schemas/tracespankind/
> Summary: OpenAPI request or response schema for TraceSpanKind, including required fields, defaults, constraints, and linked nested types.

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A span's OpenTelemetry kind. Values are stored in the database as
`smallint`; the numbers are stable.

**Shape:** enum: `Internal`, `Server`, `Client`, `Producer`, `Consumer`

**Allowed values:** `Internal`, `Server`, `Client`, `Producer`, `Consumer`