groups: - id: metric.otel.sdk.span.live.count type: metric metric_name: otel.sdk.span.live.count stability: development brief: "The number of created spans for which the end operation has not been called yet" instrument: updowncounter unit: "{span}" note: | For spans with `recording=true`: Implementations MUST record both `otel.sdk.span.live.count` and `otel.sdk.span.ended.count`. For spans with `recording=false`: If implementations decide to record this metric, they MUST also record `otel.sdk.span.ended.count`. attributes: - ref: otel.span.sampling_result - id: metric.otel.sdk.span.ended.count type: metric metric_name: otel.sdk.span.ended.count stability: development brief: "The number of created spans for which the end operation was called" instrument: counter unit: "{span}" note: | For spans with `recording=true`: Implementations MUST record both `otel.sdk.span.live.count` and `otel.sdk.span.ended.count`. For spans with `recording=false`: If implementations decide to record this metric, they MUST also record `otel.sdk.span.live.count`. attributes: - ref: otel.span.sampling_result - id: metric.otel.sdk.processor.span.queue.size type: metric metric_name: otel.sdk.processor.span.queue.size stability: development brief: "The number of spans in the queue of a given instance of an SDK span processor" note: | Only applies to span processors which use a queue, e.g. the SDK Batching Span Processor. instrument: updowncounter unit: "{span}" attributes: - ref: otel.component.type - ref: otel.component.name - id: metric.otel.sdk.processor.span.queue.capacity type: metric metric_name: otel.sdk.processor.span.queue.capacity stability: development brief: "The maximum number of spans the queue of a given instance of an SDK span processor can hold" note: | Only applies to span processors which use a queue, e.g. the SDK Batching Span Processor. instrument: updowncounter unit: "{span}" attributes: - ref: otel.component.type - ref: otel.component.name - id: metric.otel.sdk.processor.span.processed.count type: metric metric_name: otel.sdk.processor.span.processed.count stability: development brief: "The number of spans for which the processing has finished, either successful or failed" note: | For successful processing, `error.type` MUST NOT be set. For failed processing, `error.type` must contain the failure cause. For the SDK Simple and Batching Span Processor a span is considered to be processed already when it has been submitted to the exporter, not when the corresponding export call has finished. instrument: counter unit: "{span}" attributes: - ref: otel.component.type - ref: otel.component.name - ref: error.type brief: > A low-cardinality description of the failure reason. SDK Batching Span Processors MUST use `queue_full` for spans dropped due to a full queue. examples: ["queue_full"] - id: metric.otel.sdk.exporter.span.inflight.count type: metric metric_name: otel.sdk.exporter.span.inflight.count stability: development brief: "The number of spans which were passed to the exporter, but that have not been exported yet (neither successful, nor failed)" note: | For successful exports, `error.type` MUST NOT be set. For failed exports, `error.type` must contain the failure cause. instrument: updowncounter unit: "{span}" attributes: - ref: otel.component.type - ref: otel.component.name - ref: server.address requirement_level: recommended: when applicable - ref: server.port requirement_level: recommended: when applicable - id: metric.otel.sdk.exporter.span.exported.count type: metric metric_name: otel.sdk.exporter.span.exported.count stability: development brief: "The number of spans for which the export has finished, either successful or failed" note: | For successful exports, `error.type` MUST NOT be set. For failed exports, `error.type` must contain the failure cause. For exporters with partial success semantics (e.g. OTLP with `rejected_spans`), rejected spans must count as failed and only non-rejected spans count as success. If no rejection reason is available, `rejected` SHOULD be used as value for `error.type`. instrument: counter unit: "{span}" attributes: - ref: otel.component.type - ref: otel.component.name - ref: server.address requirement_level: recommended: when applicable - ref: server.port requirement_level: recommended: when applicable - ref: error.type examples: ["rejected", "timeout", "500", "java.net.UnknownHostException"]