Method: projects.traceSinks.create

Creates a sink that exports trace spans to a destination. The export of newly-ingested traces begins immediately, unless the sink's writerIdentity is not permitted to write to the destination. A sink can export traces only from the resource owning the sink (the 'parent').

HTTP request

POST https://cloudtrace.googleapis.com/v2beta1/{parent=projects/*}/traceSinks

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
parent

string

Required. The resource in which to create the sink (currently only project sinks are supported):

"projects/[PROJECT_ID]"

Examples: "projects/my-trace-project", "projects/123456789".

Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource parent:

  • cloudtrace.tracesinks.create

Request body

The request body contains an instance of TraceSink.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of TraceSink.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/trace.append
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.