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boostchicken authored and jpkrohling committed Jan 18, 2022
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or based on other metric attributes in the case of the `expr` match type.
Please refer to [config.go](./config.go) for the config spec.

It takes a pipeline type, of which `logs` and `metrics` are supported, followed
It takes a pipeline type, of which `logs` `metrics`, and `traces` are supported, followed
by an action:

- `include`: Any names NOT matching filters are excluded from remainder of pipeline
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### Filter Spans from Traces
```diff
- This plugin has the ability to drop individual spans or whole traces. The good news is you define the rules.
- This pipeline is able to drop spans and whole traces, that means your traces will be incomplete in your visualizaiton tool. Why would wont want this you may ask?
Auto instrument 600 java-redis-clients and tell me how quickly your tracing platform goes to tis knees.
Also, DO NOT TRLY ON THIS PLUGIN FOR PCI/Sox/HIPPA etc. If the data has already gotten this far in the pipeline you have a larger root problem.
```
See the documentation in the [attribute processor](../attributesprocessor/README.md) for syntax

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