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+// Copyright 2017, OpenCensus Authors
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+/*
+Package trace contains support for OpenCensus distributed tracing.
+
+The following assumes a basic familiarity with OpenCensus concepts.
+See http://opencensus.io
+
+
+Exporting Traces
+
+To export collected tracing data, register at least one exporter. You can use
+one of the provided exporters or write your own.
+
+ trace.RegisterExporter(exporter)
+
+By default, traces will be sampled relatively rarely. To change the sampling
+frequency for your entire program, call ApplyConfig. Use a ProbabilitySampler
+to sample a subset of traces, or use AlwaysSample to collect a trace on every run:
+
+ trace.ApplyConfig(trace.Config{DefaultSampler: trace.AlwaysSample()})
+
+Be careful about using trace.AlwaysSample in a production application with
+significant traffic: a new trace will be started and exported for every request.
+
+Adding Spans to a Trace
+
+A trace consists of a tree of spans. In Go, the current span is carried in a
+context.Context.
+
+It is common to want to capture all the activity of a function call in a span. For
+this to work, the function must take a context.Context as a parameter. Add these two
+lines to the top of the function:
+
+ ctx, span := trace.StartSpan(ctx, "example.com/Run")
+ defer span.End()
+
+StartSpan will create a new top-level span if the context
+doesn't contain another span, otherwise it will create a child span.
+*/
+package trace // import "go.opencensus.io/trace"