public com.google.devtools.cloudtrace.v2.Span.TimeEvents getTimeEvents() {
      if (timeEventsBuilder_ == null) {
        return timeEvents_ == null
            ? com.google.devtools.cloudtrace.v2.Span.TimeEvents.getDefaultInstance()
            : timeEvents_;
      } else {
        return timeEventsBuilder_.getMessage();
      }
    }
<pre>
A set of time events. You can have up to 32 annotations and 128 message
events per span.
</pre>

<code>.google.devtools.cloudtrace.v2.Span.TimeEvents time_events = 9;</code>

@return The timeEvents.
java-trace/proto-google-cloud-trace-v2/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/cloudtrace/v2/Span.java