feat(effect-sdk): span options on Maple.layer, subtree drops, error predicates by Makisuo · Pull Request #1204 · MapleTechLabs/maple

Makisuo · 2026-10-01T22:57:25Z

Why

Maple.layer (the long-running preset) only had what Effect's stock Otlp.layerJson offers, so dropSpanNames and anticipatedErrorIdentifiers existed only on MapleFlush.make and the Cloudflare make. Users on Maple.layer had no way to:

stop expected typed failures (a duplicate document, say) from becoming error groups;
filter out a noisy idle polling loop that was driving span volume.

What changed

One tracer for every preset.

Maple.layer (server and client) now composes Effect's OtlpLogger and OtlpMetrics with the Maple tracer, which pushes into Effect's own OtlpExporter.
Batching, export intervals, retry back-off, the shutdown flush, the shared Flusher, appendUrl URL joining and OtlpResource.fromConfig all match the stock layer.

Shared MapleSpanOptions (shared/span-options.ts), accepted by all three presets. It replaces three copies of the option parsing.

Option	Behaviour
`dropSpanNames`	Unchanged: drops only the matching span
`dropSpanSubtrees`	New. The span starts unsampled, so all of its descendants are dropped too
`dropSpan`	New. Predicate on the finished span (`name`, `kind`, `attributes`, `exit`)
`anticipatedErrorIdentifiers`	Now also on `Maple.layer`
`isAnticipatedError`	New. Predicate form, for driver errors that are only expected in one case
`excludeLogSpans`	Now also on `Maple.layer`

Classification fix. A server span that answered 5xx stays Error even when its failure is listed as anticipated. Before, an anticipated error that was not mapped to a 4xx was exported as Ok while the client got a 500.

Release. A minor changeset takes @maple-dev/effect-sdk from 0.10.1 to 0.11.0. README, landing docs (sdks/effect.md, sdks/effect-cloudflare.md) and a changelog entry are included.

Merged with main (2026-10-16). The Maple tracer now carries main's client connection-loss hook and HTTP 4xx/5xx client and server handling, so Maple.layer gets them too. A new test shows a manual Flusher.flush drains traces and logs before shutdown. The signal layers share one memoized layerFlusher, and each exporter also flushes on scope close.

Reviewer notes

Subtree drop is opt-in.

dropSpanNames keeps its old meaning. The subtree behaviour has three side effects:
- unsampled traceparent on outgoing calls, so downstream services that honour it drop their spans too;
- errors inside the subtree are not tracked;
- logs inside it keep trace ids for spans that are never exported.
These are documented next to the option. apps/ai's McpServer/Notifications. drop behaves exactly as before.

Behaviour changes for Maple.layer users. These come from now sharing the flushable classification:

spans whose failure carries ErrorReporter.ignore (unmatched-route 404s) are dropped;
server spans that rendered a 5xx are relabelled Error. That can open new error groups for crashes that used to export as Ok.

Fingerprints. Maple.layer passes includeCauseInStack: true, matching the stock OtlpTracer, so exception stacktraces and the fingerprints hashed from them don't move. The flushable presets keep their current stacks.

Workaround in docs. The docs also show a no-option alternative: withSpan(name, { level: "Debug" }) with Tracer.MinimumTraceLevel set to Info. A test pins it.

Tests.

New Maple.layer tests capture the real export payloads (via a file-level fetch stub, since FetchHttpClient resolves globalThis.fetch once). They cover:
- shutdown export, auth header and resource;
- subtree drop, and log correlation for the surviving span;
- anticipated → Ok, unexpected → Error;
- the trace-level recipe.
New tracer tests cover:
- span-only vs. subtree drop (grandchildren and forked fibers);
- errors inside a dropped subtree;
- the dropSpan predicate and isAnticipatedError;
- 5xx precedence and includeCauseInStack.
A client test confirms span options apply and session.id is still stamped.

Publishing. The npm publish is manual, after merge.

Test plan

vitest run in packages/effect-sdk: 152 passed
tsc --noEmit for effect-sdk, infra and alchemy-maple (after building the SDK dist)
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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Span filtering options are available across SDK presets, including name-based filtering, subtree suppression, and predicates for completed spans.
- Configure anticipated failures by identifier or predicate, and choose whether to exclude log spans.
- Subtree filtering suppresses descendant spans, outgoing-call sampling, and error tracking.
Behavior Changes
- Unmatched-route 404 spans are dropped; server spans with 5xx responses remain errors, including for anticipated failures.
Documentation
- Updated SDK configuration references and examples to describe the shared options and their effects.

…redicates Maple.layer was built on Effect's stock Otlp.layerJson, whose tracer has no hook to drop or reclassify spans, so dropSpanNames and anticipatedErrorIdentifiers only existed on the flushable presets. It now composes OtlpLogger + OtlpMetrics with the Maple tracer pushing into Effect's OtlpExporter (same batching, intervals, shutdown flush, shared Flusher). All presets share one MapleSpanOptions: - dropSpanNames: unchanged, drops only the matching span - dropSpanSubtrees: new, starts the span unsampled so its subtree goes too - dropSpan: new, predicate on the finished span (name, kind, attributes, exit) - anticipatedErrorIdentifiers / isAnticipatedError (new predicate form) - excludeLogSpans now on Maple.layer as well A server span that answered 5xx now stays Error even when its failure is anticipated. Maple.layer keeps includeCauseInStack so existing error fingerprints don't move. Bumps the SDK to 0.10.0.

maple-review-bot · 2026-10-01T22:57:36Z

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🟢 Confidence 4/5 · likely safe to merge
Contained SDK change with real export-payload tests; the one thing I could not read is Effect's Layer.mergeAll flusher wiring in shared/otlp-layer.ts.
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Maple.layer now exports traces through the Maple tracer (with MapleSpanOptions: subtree drops, dropSpan, error predicates) instead of Effect's stock OtlpTracer, and the three presets share one option parser and span encoder. The layer behaviour changes are documented and covered by new export-payload tests; nothing I read is a defect.

Maple.layer (server+client) exports via makeOtlpLayer + the Maple tracer
New dropSpanSubtrees starts a matching span unsampled; dropSpan/isAnticipatedError added
A server span that rendered 5xx stays Error even when its failure is anticipated
Span options parsed once in shared/span-options.ts for all three presets

What was checked

dropSpan predicate gets the ended span's live attribute Map and exit; drop runs before the ignored-failure check (flushable-tracer.ts:72-85)
5xx precedence reorder keeps interrupt and Success branches in their old order; only Failure+5xx+anticipated changes (flushable-tracer.ts:251-291)
Flushable presets pass the whole config to makeSpanBuffer, whose filter reproduces the previous drop/ignore/anticipated behaviour

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📝 Walkthrough

The SDK adds shared span-filtering and anticipated-error options across its presets. It centralizes span filtering and OTLP export, updates preset configuration and tests, and documents the options and reported behavior.

Changes: Span options and telemetry export

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared span filtering and error classification `packages/effect-sdk/src/shared/span-options.ts`, `packages/effect-sdk/src/shared/flushable-tracer.ts`, `packages/effect-sdk/src/shared/flushable-tracer.test.ts`	Shared options resolve span-name and predicate filters, subtree drops, and anticipated-error checks. The tracer applies the filters, retains Error status for server 5xx spans, and supports including causes in exception stacks. Tests cover filtering, classification, and stack formatting.
OTLP export and preset integration `packages/effect-sdk/src/shared/otlp-layer.ts`, `packages/effect-sdk/src/client/`, `packages/effect-sdk/src/server/`, `packages/effect-sdk/src/cloudflare/index.ts`	A shared OTLP layer configures log, metric, and trace export. Presets pass their span options to the shared implementation. Tests cover export and filtering behavior.
Documentation and release metadata `apps/landing/src/content/docs/sdks/`, `apps/landing/src/content/changelog/`, `packages/effect-sdk/README.md`, `.changeset/*`	The documentation describes shared span options, subtree drops, anticipated failures, and server 5xx behavior. The changelog and changeset describe the options and release.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MaplePreset
  participant makeOtlpLayer
  participant makeMapleTracer
  participant makeSpanEncoder
  participant OTLPExporter
  MaplePreset->>makeOtlpLayer: Pass configuration and span options
  makeOtlpLayer->>makeMapleTracer: Configure tracer with span filter
  makeMapleTracer->>makeSpanEncoder: Send completed spans for encoding
  makeSpanEncoder->>OTLPExporter: Pass eligible encoded spans

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No actionable issue remains in the supplied review evidence; the change is mergeable after normal checks.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to c63d1

The inspected export path preserves browser consent checks, destinations, and credential handling. Subtree suppression is explicitly configured and documented. The main concern is that exceptions from the new user-defined predicates can escape span completion and lose telemetry before retry protection applies.

Retained concerns

Low · reliability · observed: The new public dropSpan and isAnticipatedError callbacks run synchronously during span completion without an exception boundary. If a callback throws, the span is already Ended but has not entered the buffer or exporter queue, so transport retry cannot recover that telemetry. This broadens a pre-existing internal callback pattern to application-defined policies across presets. Effects on the host Effect program remain unresolved; this is a failure-containment concern, not a verified remote attack path.

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Security Blast Radius

inferred — The material exposure is telemetry visibility within SDK runtimes using the shared policy, extending to descendant spans and downstream tracing that honors sampling propagation. The inspected configuration does not establish a new tenant-access or privileged-credential boundary; policy installation remains an application configuration decision.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — The new browser export composition remains behind the existing request-execution consent wrapper. That wrapper blocks requests without consent, suppresses cumulative metrics under explicit consent, prunes traces and logs against the current grant, and fails closed on unsupported or malformed payloads. Endpoint resolution and bearer-header construction are unchanged from the canonical PR base.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

observed — Anticipated-error classification rejects causes containing defects and requires every typed failure to match. This limits accidental suppression of mixed failures. However, the application-provided predicate itself has no exception isolation before completed telemetry enters recoverable export storage.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — Consider defining a conservative callback-failure contract: isolate predicate exceptions, retain the affected span as non-anticipated rather than silently losing it, and report bounded diagnostics outside the same tracing callback. This would protect telemetry and host-runtime failure containment without changing intentional drop behavior.

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Resolve the SDK conflicts against Effect 4.0.4 and the client connection-loss work: - the Maple tracer takes main's watchConnection hook, so Maple.layer and the flushable presets share one span encoder with main's HTTP 4xx/5xx handling - ignored-failure checks use the span filter's isAnticipated predicate - a 5xx server span stays Error when its failure is anticipated - version stays on main's 0.10.1; a minor changeset carries this release Also limit autoFlushInterval to MapleFlush.make in the README, and add a test that a manual Flusher.flush drains traces and logs before shutdown.

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🟢 Confidence 8/10 · likely safe to merge
The new tracer mirrors stock OtlpTracer.make and the flushable presets' stacktraces are provably unchanged; only the documented Maple.layer reclassification is a live behavior change.
_{quality 100/100 · no findings · tests covered · risk medium · 0/1 new units observable}

Maple.layer now takes the shared span options (dropSpanSubtrees, dropSpan, isAnticipatedError) through a Maple tracer behind Effect's OtlpExporter, and a 5xx server span stays Error even when its failure is anticipated. The refactor keeps the stock exporter defaults and the flushable presets' stacktraces.

Maple.layer runs the Maple tracer behind Effect's OtlpExporter
Shared MapleSpanOptions replaces three copies of option parsing
dropSpanSubtrees starts a span unsampled so descendants drop too
5xx server spans stay Error even when anticipated

Production impact

Production traffic of the changed files (last 7 days)

File	Calls/day	Busiest operations
`packages/effect-sdk/src/shared/otlp-layer.ts`	1.3M	`POST /v1/traces` 457k/day, 0.0% err `POST /v1/traces` 327k/day, 0.0% err `POST /v1/metrics` 187k/day, 0.0% err
`packages/effect-sdk/src/client/flushable.ts`	983k	`POST /v1/traces` 457k/day, 0.0% err `POST /v1/traces` 327k/day, 0.0% err `POST /v1/logs` 129k/day, 0.0% err
`packages/effect-sdk/src/cloudflare/index.ts`	983k	`POST /v1/traces` 457k/day, 0.0% err `POST /v1/traces` 327k/day, 0.0% err `POST /v1/logs` 129k/day, 0.0% err
`packages/effect-sdk/src/server/flushable.ts`	983k	`POST /v1/traces` 457k/day, 0.0% err `POST /v1/traces` 327k/day, 0.0% err `POST /v1/logs` 129k/day, 0.0% err

What was checked

includeCauseInStack defaults false in Cause.prettyErrors (internal/effect.ts:372), so flushable stacktraces, and their fingerprints, do not move
The new exporter hook, option defaults and scope.name mirror stock OtlpTracer.make in the pinned effect checkout
SpanProto.end sets the Ended status before calling export, so the removed Ended guard in makeSpanEncoder cannot read an undefined exit

Observability coverage: 0 of 1 changes observable

Change	Kind	Observable	Evidence
OTLP trace/log/metric export fiber behind Maple.layer	background exporter (outbound OTLP HTTP)	no	This is the telemetry transport itself; the repo keeps ingest export out of self-tracing (CLAUDE.md: self-tracing goes through ingest, `withTracerDisabledWhen()`), and the new tests assert the export payloads instead

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Deployed to maple-vcs-sync (production) at 2026-10-18 10:26 UTC as 27a645c, the first version after the merge (the merge commit itself never reported). Compared the 60 minutes before and after.

Operation	Calls/h	Errors	p95
`POST /v1/traces`	21k → 22k	0.0% → 0.0%	513 → 592 ms
`POST /v1/traces`	6.5k → 6.6k	0.0% → 0.0%	5 → 5 ms
`POST /v1/metrics`	15k → 16k	0.0% → 0.0%	117 → 131 ms
`POST /v1/logs`	9.4k → 6.8k	0.0% → 0.0%	58 → 63 ms
`POST /v1/metrics`	4.0k → 4.0k	0.0% → 0.0%	7 → 8 ms
`POST /v1/logs`	2.5k → 2.7k	0.0% → 0.0%	1 → 1 ms
`POST /v1/traces`	381 → 186	46.2% → 67.2%	699 → 225 ms

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