Create new Opentelemetry Trace in java

Question

We have traces that have hundreds/thousands of spans because of loops and that seems pretty blooded.

Is there a way to create custom Opentelemetry traces in java ? Let's say in a loop, I want to create traces on my own.

Answer 1

tracer.spanBuilder("abc").setNoParent().startSpan()

As @gaurang said, setNoParent is the one can create a trace.