Add root span explanation

StudistCorporation · Nov 20, 2023 · 2d872bf · 2d872bf
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@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ Utility function that builds Datadog headers for distributed tracing. By adding
 
 Used to manually report caught exceptions (without relying on the automatic reporting from `with-tracing` or `defn-traced`). This can be useful for example in a Ring handler that catches all escaped exceptions are responds with a well-formed 500 error.
 
+If you want to mark an entire request as "errored", then combine this with `root-of` to mark the root span as error.
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 ```clj
 (defn wrap-exception
   [handler]