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import { SpanAttributes, SpanContext, Span, SpanKind } from '@opentelemetry/api';
/**
 * Creates a new span with the given properties
 *
 * @param {string} spanName the name for the span
 * @param {Attributes?} attributes an object containing the attributes to be set for the span
 * @param {SpanContext?} parent the context of the parent span to link to the span
 */
export declare function createSpan(spanName: string, kind: SpanKind, attributes?: SpanAttributes, parent?: SpanContext): Span;