docs/spec: require duration >= 0 #3721
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Motivation/summary
Until now the APM Server would accept negative transaction and span durations, which does not make sense. We should reject negative durations, so we don't record junk data.
Recording negative durations would impact our ability to use HDRHistogram in percentile aggregations: elastic/kibana#64758.
Checklist
make check-fullfor static code checks and linting)- [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentationHow to test these changes
I hacked the Go agent to allow it to send negative durations, set the duration to -1, and observed a schema validation error. Normally the Go agent does not allow this; it uses negative values as a sentinel for setting duration based on
now-start.Related issues
Closes #3715