---
title: "Spans"
description: "Span creation, sampling, filtering, and data scrubbing within traces."
url: https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/telemetry/spans/
---

# Spans

* #### [Filtering](https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/telemetry/spans/filtering.md)
* #### [Implementation Guidelines](https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/telemetry/spans/implementation.md)
* #### [Sampling](https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/telemetry/spans/sampling.md)
* #### [Scrubbing data](https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/telemetry/spans/scrubbing-data.md)
* #### [Span API](https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/telemetry/spans/span-api.md)
* #### [Span Protocol](https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/telemetry/spans/span-protocol.md)
* #### [Span Trace Propagation](https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/telemetry/spans/span-trace-propagation.md)
* #### [Span Buffer](https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/telemetry/spans/span-buffer.md)

## Pages in this section

- [Implementation Guidelines](https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/telemetry/spans/implementation.md)
- [Span Buffer](https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/telemetry/spans/span-buffer.md)
- [Filtering](https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/telemetry/spans/filtering.md)
- [Sampling](https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/telemetry/spans/sampling.md)
- [Scrubbing data](https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/telemetry/spans/scrubbing-data.md)
- [Span API](https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/telemetry/spans/span-api.md)
- [Span Protocol](https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/telemetry/spans/span-protocol.md)
- [Span Trace Propagation](https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/telemetry/spans/span-trace-propagation.md)