TheIngestion Data Usage is a dynamic visual representation of data (traces) that Splunk AppDynamics for OpenTelemetry™ ingest in your monitored environment. A trace represents an end-to-end request which can be made up of one or multiple spans. Each span represents one event within a component in the application triggered in the trace. Splunk AppDynamics for OpenTelemetry™ ingests and aggregates traces into Business Transaction flow metrics in the Controller UI.