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Add platform notifications support to the CLI. The `trigger dev` and `trigger login` commands now fetch and display platform notifications (info, warn, error, success) from the server. Includes discovery-based filtering to conditionally show notifications based on project file patterns, color markup rendering for styled terminal output, and a non-blocking display flow with a spinner fallback for slow fetches. Use `--skip-platform-notifications` flag with `trigger dev` to disable the notification check.
Add support for setting TTL (time-to-live) defaults at the task level and globally in trigger.config.ts, with per-trigger overrides still taking precedence
description: Use when adding, modifying, or debugging OTel span timeline events in the trace view. Covers event structure, ClickHouse storage constraints, rendering in SpanTimeline component, admin visibility, and the step-by-step process for adding new events.
The trace view's right panel shows a timeline of events for the selected span. These are OTel span events rendered by `app/utils/timelineSpanEvents.ts` and the `SpanTimeline` component.
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## How They Work
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1.**Span events** in OTel are attached to a parent span. In ClickHouse, they're stored as separate rows with `kind: "SPAN_EVENT"` sharing the parent span's `span_id`. The `#mergeRecordsIntoSpanDetail` method reassembles them into the span's `events` array at query time.
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2. The timeline only renders events whose `name` starts with `trigger.dev/` - all others are silently filtered out.
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3. The **display name** comes from `properties.event` (not the span event name), mapped through `getFriendlyNameForEvent()`.
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4. Events are shown on the **span they belong to** - events on one span don't appear in another span's timeline.
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## ClickHouse Storage Constraint
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When events are written to ClickHouse, `spanEventsToTaskEventV1Input()` filters out events whose `start_time` is not greater than the parent span's `startTime`. Events at or before the span start are silently dropped. This means span events must have timestamps strictly after the span's own `startTimeUnixNano`.
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## Timeline Rendering (SpanTimeline component)
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The `SpanTimeline` component in `app/components/run/RunTimeline.tsx` renders:
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1.**Events** (thin 1px line with hollow dots) - all events from `createTimelineSpanEventsFromSpanEvents()`
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2.**"Started"** marker (thick cap) - at the span's `startTime`
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3.**Duration bar** (thick 7px line) - from "Started" to "Finished"
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4.**"Finished"** marker (thick cap) - at `startTime + duration`
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The thin line before "Started" only appears when there are events with timestamps between the span start and the first child span. For the Attempt span this works well (Dequeued -> Pod scheduled -> Launched -> etc. all happen before execution starts). Events all get `lineVariant: "light"` (thin) while the execution bar gets `variant: "normal"` (thick).
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## Trace View Sort Order
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Sibling spans (same parent) are sorted by `start_time ASC` from the ClickHouse query. The `createTreeFromFlatItems` function preserves this order. Event timestamps don't affect sort order - only the span's own `start_time`.
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## Event Structure
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```typescript
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// OTel span event format
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{
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name: "trigger.dev/run", // Must start with "trigger.dev/" to render
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timeUnixNano: "1711200000000000000",
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attributes: [
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{ key: "event", value: { stringValue: "dequeue" } }, // The actual event type
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{ key: "duration", value: { intValue: 150 } }, // Optional: duration in ms
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]
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}
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```
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## Admin-Only Events
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`getAdminOnlyForEvent()` controls visibility. Events default to **admin-only** (`true`).
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| Event | Admin-only | Friendly name |
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|-------|-----------|---------------|
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|`dequeue`| No | Dequeued |
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|`fork`| No | Launched |
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|`import`| No (if no fork event) | Importing task file |
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|`create_attempt`| Yes | Attempt created |
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|`lazy_payload`| Yes | Lazy attempt initialized |
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|`pod_scheduled`| Yes | Pod scheduled |
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| (default) | Yes | (raw event name) |
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## Adding New Timeline Events
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1. Add OTLP span event with `name: "trigger.dev/<scope>"` and `properties.event: "<type>"`
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2. Event timestamp must be strictly after the parent span's `startTimeUnixNano` (ClickHouse drops earlier events)
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3. Add friendly name in `getFriendlyNameForEvent()` in `app/utils/timelineSpanEvents.ts`
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4. Set admin visibility in `getAdminOnlyForEvent()`
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5. Optionally add help text in `getHelpTextForEvent()`
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