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Explanation of Change

The ManualOpenSearchRouter Sentry span currently has no child spans — Sentry shows 100% self-time with no breakdown, making it impossible to identify which phase is the bottleneck. This PR adds 4 diagnostic sub-spans that decompose the parent span into sequential, non-overlapping phases:

  1. SearchRouter.ModalCloseWait — Time waiting for Modal.close() callback. Identifies if the modal system adds latency before we even start mounting the search UI.
  2. SearchRouter.OptionsInit (cold path only) — Time spent in createOptionList(). Only fires when the parent span is active (guarded by getSpan() check to avoid noise from other useOptionsList consumers).
  3. SearchRouter.ComputeOptions — Total JS computation time in SearchAutocompleteList (searchOptions, autocompleteSuggestions, sections assembly). Only measured on first render.
  4. SearchRouter.ListRender — FlashList rendering + native layout time (from post-computation to onLayout). Only measured on first render.

The gap between sub-spans (parent minus all children) gives us the React mount + Onyx hydration overhead without requiring a dedicated span.

Additionally, 2 attributes are added to the parent span for Sentry segmentation:

  • cold_start: true/false — whether options needed initialization when SearchRouter mounted
  • trigger: 'button'/'keyboard' — how the search was opened (button path was previously missing this)

Overhead is negligible (~8 Date.now() calls per open). Sub-spans only fire on the initial render, guarded by refs.

Fixed Issues

$ #79353

Tests

  1. Open the app and navigate to any screen with the search button
  2. Click the search button (or press Cmd+K / Ctrl+K)
  3. Verify the search router opens normally with autocomplete suggestions
  4. Close the search and open it again
  5. Verify the search router opens normally on subsequent opens
  6. Check the JS console — no errors related to spans or telemetry
  • Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

Offline tests

  1. Turn off network connection
  2. Open the search router via button or Cmd+K
  3. Verify it opens normally (sub-spans are fire-and-forget, no network dependency)
  4. Verify no errors in console

QA Steps

  1. Open the app on staging
  2. Open search router via the search button
  3. Verify it opens and shows autocomplete suggestions normally
  4. Open search router via Cmd+K (or Ctrl+K on Windows)
  5. Verify it opens normally
  6. Check Sentry for ManualOpenSearchRouter spans — verify child spans (SearchRouter.ModalCloseWait, SearchRouter.ComputeOptions, SearchRouter.ListRender) appear
  7. Verify cold_start and trigger attributes are present on the parent span
  • Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

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Android: Native

N/A — No visual changes, telemetry-only instrumentation

Android: mWeb Chrome

N/A — No visual changes, telemetry-only instrumentation

iOS: Native

N/A — No visual changes, telemetry-only instrumentation

iOS: mWeb Safari

N/A — No visual changes, telemetry-only instrumentation

MacOS: Chrome / Safari

N/A — No visual changes, telemetry-only instrumentation

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Add 4 sub-spans and 2 attributes to the ManualOpenSearchRouter Sentry span
to identify which phases of the search router opening are bottlenecks.

Sub-spans:
- SearchRouter.ModalCloseWait: Modal.close() callback latency
- SearchRouter.OptionsInit: Cold-path createOptionList() cost
- SearchRouter.ComputeOptions: JS computation in SearchAutocompleteList
- SearchRouter.ListRender: FlashList rendering + native layout

Attributes:
- cold_start: whether options needed initialization
- trigger: 'button' or 'keyboard'

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import React, {useRef} from 'react';
import type {StyleProp, View, ViewStyle} from 'react-native';
import React, { useRef } from 'react';
import type { StyleProp, View, ViewStyle } from 'react-native';
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Looks like your local prettier is broken


if (isInitialRender) {
endSpan(CONST.TELEMETRY.SPAN_SEARCH_ROUTER_COMPUTE_OPTIONS);
startSpan(CONST.TELEMETRY.SPAN_SEARCH_ROUTER_LIST_RENDER, {
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❌ PERF-12 (docs)

The SPAN_SEARCH_ROUTER_LIST_RENDER span is started during render but endSpan is only called inside the onLayout callback. If the component unmounts before layout completes (e.g., the user closes the search router quickly), this span will never be ended, causing a resource leak.

Consider adding a cleanup mechanism via useEffect to ensure the span is ended on unmount:

useEffect(() => {
    return () => {
        endSpan(CONST.TELEMETRY.SPAN_SEARCH_ROUTER_LIST_RENDER);
    };
}, []);

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❌ Looks like you've decreased code coverage for some files. Please write tests to increase, or at least maintain, the existing level of code coverage. See our documentation here for how to interpret this table.

Files with missing lines Coverage Δ
src/CONST/index.ts 87.39% <ø> (ø)
...rc/components/Search/SearchRouter/SearchButton.tsx 100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
...onents/Search/SearchRouter/SearchRouterContext.tsx 55.17% <100.00%> (ø)
src/components/OptionListContextProvider.tsx 77.77% <76.47%> (-0.69%) ⬇️
src/components/Search/SearchAutocompleteList.tsx 37.19% <68.42%> (-2.01%) ⬇️
...rc/components/Search/SearchRouter/SearchRouter.tsx 0.00% <0.00%> (ø)
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Comment on lines +79 to +80
parentSpan.setAttribute('cold_start', !areOptionsInitialized);
coldStartAttributeSet.current = true;

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P2 Badge Set cold_start after options state has synchronized

This sets cold_start during the first render and then permanently locks it via coldStartAttributeSet, but useOptionsList() initializes areOptionsInitialized to false and only syncs it from context in an effect (OptionListContextProvider.tsx uses useState(false) then updates in useEffect). On warm opens, this render still sees false, so the ManualOpenSearchRouter span is incorrectly tagged cold_start=true and never corrected, which breaks warm vs cold segmentation.

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Comment on lines +190 to +194
startSpan(CONST.TELEMETRY.SPAN_SEARCH_ROUTER_COMPUTE_OPTIONS, {
name: CONST.TELEMETRY.SPAN_SEARCH_ROUTER_COMPUTE_OPTIONS,
op: 'function',
});
computeSpanStarted.current = true;

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P2 Badge Guard ComputeOptions span behind open-router parent span

This starts SearchRouter.ComputeOptions unconditionally whenever SearchAutocompleteList mounts, but that component is also rendered from SearchPageHeaderInput (non-router flows), so these spans are produced without a ManualOpenSearchRouter parent. Since startSpan() in activeSpans.ts cancels any existing span with the same ID before creating a new one, unrelated mounts can overwrite/cancel real router instrumentation and pollute the telemetry breakdown.

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