# Semantic Conventions for Hardware **Status**: [Experimental][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-metric-semantic-conventions) 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. [DocumentStatus]: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/document-status