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# Semantic Conventions for Messaging Systems

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

This document defines semantic conventions for messaging systems spans, metrics and logs.

Semantic conventions for messaging systems are defined for the following signals:

* [Messaging Spans](messaging-spans.md): Semantic Conventions for messaging *spans*.

Technology specific semantic conventions are defined for the following messaging systems:

* [Kafka](kafka.md): Semantic Conventions for *Apache Kafka*.
* [RabbitMQ](rabbitmq.md): Semantic Conventions for *RabbitMQ*.
* [RocketMQ](rocketmq.md): Semantic Conventions for *Apache RocketMQ*.

[DocumentStatus]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/tree/v1.22.0/specification/document-status.md