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# Semantic conventions for hardware

**Status**: [Development][DocumentStatus]

This document describes instruments and attributes for common hardware level
metrics in OpenTelemetry. Consider the [general metric semantic conventions](/docs/general/metrics.md#general-guidelines)
when creating instruments not explicitly defined in the specification.

Semantic conventions for hardware are defined as following:

* [Common Hardware Metrics](common.md): Semantic Conventions for *common* hardware metrics.
* [Physical Host Metrics](host.md): Semantic Conventions for *physical host* metrics.

[DocumentStatus]: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/document-status
