Update tracing documentation with new features

[TwoTau]

Added documentation for user annotations system, conversation tab view, and enhanced span search capabilities. Updated features/tracing.mdx to reflect recent platform improvements.

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Summary of Changes

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This pull request updates the tracing documentation to reflect recent platform improvements. It introduces detailed explanations for the new 'Conversation view' feature, which streamlines the understanding of AI interactions, and the 'User annotations' system, enabling direct feedback on traces. Additionally, the documentation for span search capabilities has been enhanced to provide a clearer understanding of its expanded functionality.

Highlights

• Enhanced Span Search Documentation: The documentation for SearchText has been updated to clarify that it now supports full-text search across span name, span kind, span ID, and all span attributes, including nested values in prompt/response fields.
• Conversation View Documentation Added: A new section has been added detailing the 'Conversation' tab, which provides a chat-like format for AI interactions, extracting messages from gen_ai spans, displaying system prompts and tool calls, and supporting Claude Code traces.
• User Annotations System Documented: New documentation introduces the 'Annotations' feature, allowing users to add human feedback, rate interactions (thumbs up/down), and add comments directly to traces and individual spans, with clear steps on how to use it.

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Changelog

• features/tracing.mdx
  • Updated the description of SearchText to include span name, span kind, span ID, and all span attributes for full-text search.
  • Added a new section titled 'Conversation view' detailing its features for displaying AI interactions in a chat-like format.
  • Added a new section titled 'User annotations' explaining how to add human feedback, ratings, and comments to traces and spans.

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Code Review

This pull request does a great job of documenting new tracing features, including the conversation view, user annotations, and enhanced search. The explanations are clear and the structure is easy to follow. I've added a couple of minor suggestions to improve the consistency and clarity of the new 'User annotations' section. Overall, this is a solid documentation update.

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For improved clarity and consistency with the phrasing in step 4 of the 'how-to' list ('thumbs up or thumbs down'), you could make the terminology for ratings more explicit here.

- **Rate interactions**: Give thumbs-up or thumbs-down ratings to mark good or problematic responses

[gemini-code-assist]

The introduction and 'how-to' guide mention that annotations can be applied to both traces and spans, but this benefit focuses only on spans. To improve consistency and better reflect the feature's capabilities, consider rephrasing this to cover both trace and span level annotations.

- **Pinpoint feedback**: Annotate entire traces for overall feedback, or specific spans to pinpoint exactly where issues occurred.