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Support for Jaeger tags with binary value
Description
Support for Jaeger tags with binary value
Since we are using the OTEL translator, when ingesting Jaeger traces all
the tags with VType=ValueType_BINARY are being encoded into base64 and
stored as strings. The context of the type of value is lost after this
translation occurs, meaning that, when we return those tags in a Jaeger
query we return the base64 string as VType=ValueType_STRING.
To preserve the type of the value, the prefix __ValueType_BINARY__ will
be added to the base64 string before storing in the DB. When retrieving a
trace we look for tags that are string and have this prefix, we remove it and
return a ValueType_BINARY with the result of decoding the
base64 string.
Jaeger allows these type of tags for Spans, Process and Logs.
Merge requirements
Please take into account the following non-code changes that you may need to make with your PR:
- [x] CHANGELOG entry for user-facing changes
- [ ] Updated the relevant documentation
