# Strange proxy span duration

**URL:** <https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/strange-proxy-span-duration/419>\
**Category:** Linkerd General Discussion\
**Tags:** tracing\
**Created:** [March 22, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/strange-proxy-span-duration/419 "2024-03-22T14:08:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![trojan295](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed655f/32.png) [@trojan295](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/u/trojan295)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/strange-proxy-span-duration/419/1 "2024-03-22T14:08:27Z")

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Hello!

I’ve got a setup with an ingress-nginx, Linkerd 2.14 and VOD service (based on [GitHub - kaltura/nginx-vod-module: NGINX-based MP4 Repackager](https://github.com/kaltura/nginx-vod-module)). The VOD service after receiving a request does a few subrequests to the source video file and returns the response.

I enabled tracing on the ingress-nginx and Linkerd. The traces are pushed via OpenTelemetry collector into Grafana Tempo.

The spans I’m getting from some Linkerd proxies are strange.

 ![Screenshot from 2024-03-22 12-23-29](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/buoyant1/original/1X/afbb60e37493123a6f53b5bcae218000f9c31cec.png)

On the trace I get, I see the span from ingress-nginx, spans from the request done from ingress to the VOD service and the spans from the subrequests to the source video file. The strange thing is that I would expect the spans from the ingress to the VOD service to end after the last subrequest span.

Did somebody encounter a similar situation?