Inspecting payloads

The span inspector presents request, response, metadata, and error payloads as formatted JSON with collapsible nodes, syntax highlighting, copy controls, and word wrapping.

Masked values remain visibly marked with the configured redaction replacement, which defaults to:

[REDACTED]

Truncated payloads display _truncated and _original_bytes metadata instead of the original content.

Payloads are protected twice:

1. Redaction and size limiting occur before persistence or queue dispatch.
2. The trace API applies redaction and limiting again before returning stored data to the dashboard.

The second pass protects against legacy records and application-specific redactors registered after data was originally written. It does not make it safe to weaken database access controls.