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Display linked spans in the trace view #1593

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This would be particularly helpful for messaging mechanisms that support fan-out and batch processing. Because each message in a batch is not necessarily mapped 1-1 with a single traceparent, OTEL instrumentation uses links to associate the trace for "receiving" the message(s) with the parent span, rather than setting a parent span directly.

HyperDX does not currently display linked spans in the trace view, but it would be extremely nice if it did. Currently such spans simply appear as orphans.

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