Highlight Backend Error Report

arazzo: 1.0.1
info:
  title: Highlight Backend Error Report
  summary: Record a backend error as an OTLP error span and a matching error log so Highlight groups it into an error group.
  description: >-
    Highlight has no error-management REST API; backend errors are reported by
    emitting OpenTelemetry signals carrying error semantics, which Highlight then
    aggregates into error groups in its dashboard. This workflow records one
    backend error twice over: first as an OTLP span whose status code is
    STATUS_CODE_ERROR and that carries an exception event, then as an OTLP log
    record at ERROR severity referencing the same project and trace id. Together
    they give Highlight the span context and the message it needs to fingerprint
    and group the error. Every step spells out its request inline so the flow can
    be read and executed without opening the underlying OpenAPI description.
  version: 1.0.0
sourceDescriptions:
- name: tracesApi
  url: ../openapi/highlight-otlp-traces-api-openapi.yml
  type: openapi
- name: logsApi
  url: ../openapi/highlight-otlp-logs-api-openapi.yml
  type: openapi
workflows:
- workflowId: backend-error-report
  summary: Report a backend error to Highlight as a correlated OTLP error span and error log.
  description: >-
    Emits an OTLP span with an error status and exception event, then an OTLP
    ERROR-severity log record for the same project and trace id, so Highlight can
    fingerprint and aggregate the error into an error group.
  inputs:
    type: object
    required:
    - projectId
    - traceId
    - spanId
    - spanName
    - startTimeUnixNano
    - endTimeUnixNano
    - errorMessage
    - errorTimeUnixNano
    properties:
      projectId:
        type: string
        description: The Highlight project verbose id used as the highlight.project_id resource attribute.
      serviceName:
        type: string
        description: The emitting service name (service.name resource attribute).
        default: backend
      traceId:
        type: string
        description: 16-byte trace identifier encoded as hex, shared by the span and the error log.
      spanId:
        type: string
        description: 8-byte span identifier encoded as hex.
      spanName:
        type: string
        description: Name of the span in which the error occurred.
      startTimeUnixNano:
        type: string
        description: Span start time in nanoseconds since the UNIX epoch.
      endTimeUnixNano:
        type: string
        description: Span end time in nanoseconds since the UNIX epoch.
      errorType:
        type: string
        description: The exception type used as the exception.type span event attribute.
        default: Error
      errorMessage:
        type: string
        description: The error message, reused as exception.message and the log body.
      errorStacktrace:
        type: string
        description: The exception stacktrace recorded as the exception.stacktrace span event attribute.
        default: ""
      errorTimeUnixNano:
        type: string
        description: Timestamp of the error log record in nanoseconds since the UNIX epoch.
  steps:
  - stepId: exportErrorSpan
    description: >-
      Submit an OTLP span with STATUS_CODE_ERROR status and an exception event
      that captures the error type, message, and stacktrace.
    operationId: exportTraces
    requestBody:
      contentType: application/json
      payload:
        resourceSpans:
        - resource:
            attributes:
            - key: highlight.project_id
              value:
                stringValue: $inputs.projectId
            - key: service.name
              value:
                stringValue: $inputs.serviceName
          scopeSpans:
          - spans:
            - traceId: $inputs.traceId
              spanId: $inputs.spanId
              name: $inputs.spanName
              kind: SPAN_KIND_SERVER
              startTimeUnixNano: $inputs.startTimeUnixNano
              endTimeUnixNano: $inputs.endTimeUnixNano
              status:
                code: STATUS_CODE_ERROR
                message: $inputs.errorMessage
              events:
              - timeUnixNano: $inputs.endTimeUnixNano
                name: exception
                attributes:
                - key: exception.type
                  value:
                    stringValue: $inputs.errorType
                - key: exception.message
                  value:
                    stringValue: $inputs.errorMessage
                - key: exception.stacktrace
                  value:
                    stringValue: $inputs.errorStacktrace
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 200
    outputs:
      rejectedSpans: $response.body#/partialSuccess/rejectedSpans
  - stepId: exportErrorLog
    description: >-
      Submit an OTLP ERROR-severity log record for the same project and trace id
      so the error message is searchable and grouped alongside the error span.
    operationId: exportLogs
    requestBody:
      contentType: application/json
      payload:
        resourceLogs:
        - resource:
            attributes:
            - key: highlight.project_id
              value:
                stringValue: $inputs.projectId
            - key: service.name
              value:
                stringValue: $inputs.serviceName
          scopeLogs:
          - logRecords:
            - timeUnixNano: $inputs.errorTimeUnixNano
              severityNumber: 17
              severityText: ERROR
              body:
                stringValue: $inputs.errorMessage
              traceId: $inputs.traceId
              spanId: $inputs.spanId
              attributes:
              - key: highlight.trace_id
                value:
                  stringValue: $inputs.traceId
              - key: exception.type
                value:
                  stringValue: $inputs.errorType
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 200
    outputs:
      rejectedLogRecords: $response.body#/partialSuccess/rejectedLogRecords
  outputs:
    rejectedSpans: $steps.exportErrorSpan.outputs.rejectedSpans
    rejectedLogRecords: $steps.exportErrorLog.outputs.rejectedLogRecords