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# Semantic Conventions for CloudEvents

**Status**: [Experimental][DocumentStatus]

This document defines semantic conventions for the [CloudEvents specification](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/blob/v1.0.2/cloudevents/spec.md#overview).

Semantic conventions for CloudEvents are defined for the following signals:

- [CloudEvents Spans](cloudevents-spans.md): Semantic Conventions for modeling CloudEvents as _spans_.

[DocumentStatus]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/tree/v1.26.0/specification/document-status.md
