Ability to mute transaction spans in a block

[booleanbetrayal]

Describe the idea

Skylight has Skylight.mute support to selectively disable span construction in a block, during operations known to inflate payload sizes unnecessarily or for any reason a developer might not be interested in that information. I haven't found any sort of corresponding support in Sentry, which is causing us troubles with payload contraints. Likewise, because there is no ability to interact with the transaction like before_send, we are at a loss for how to deal with this situation.

Why do you think it's beneficial to most of the users

Users will likely have requirements where selective disabling of span recording could allow transactions to succeed / be more contextually relevant, where they were not before.

Possible implementation

Sentry.mute method that behaves identically to Skylight.mute.

[sl0thentr0py]

thx @booleanbetrayal I'll discuss this internally and get back to you. Ideally when we implement high level features such as these, we should do them across all languages.

[booleanbetrayal]

Thank you @sl0thentr0py . Feel free to reach out if you need any use-case specifics.

[sl0thentr0py]

we're going to eventually move to opentelemetry like api's anyway so for this is out of the picture for now, closing.