semantic-conventions/docs/registry/entities/telemetry.md

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Telemetry

Telemetry Distro

Status: Development

type: telemetry.distro

Description: The distribution of telemetry SDK used to capture data recorded by the instrumentation libraries.

Other Attributes:

⚠️ This entity definition contains attributes without a role. Stable Entities MUST NOT have attributes without a defined role.

Attribute Type Description Examples Requirement Level Stability
telemetry.distro.name string The name of the auto instrumentation agent or distribution, if used. [1] parts-unlimited-java Recommended Development
telemetry.distro.version string The version string of the auto instrumentation agent or distribution, if used. 1.2.3 Recommended Development

[1] telemetry.distro.name: Official auto instrumentation agents and distributions SHOULD set the telemetry.distro.name attribute to a string starting with opentelemetry-, e.g. opentelemetry-java-instrumentation.

Telemetry Sdk

Status: Stable

type: telemetry.sdk

Description: The telemetry SDK used to capture data recorded by the instrumentation libraries.

Identifying Attributes:

Attribute Type Description Examples Requirement Level Stability
telemetry.sdk.language string The language of the telemetry SDK. cpp; dotnet; erlang Required Stable
telemetry.sdk.name string The name of the telemetry SDK as defined above. [2] opentelemetry Required Stable

[2] telemetry.sdk.name: The OpenTelemetry SDK MUST set the telemetry.sdk.name attribute to opentelemetry. If another SDK, like a fork or a vendor-provided implementation, is used, this SDK MUST set the telemetry.sdk.name attribute to the fully-qualified class or module name of this SDK's main entry point or another suitable identifier depending on the language. The identifier opentelemetry is reserved and MUST NOT be used in this case. All custom identifiers SHOULD be stable across different versions of an implementation.


telemetry.sdk.language has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.

Value Description Stability
cpp cpp Stable
dotnet dotnet Stable
erlang erlang Stable
go go Stable
java java Stable
nodejs nodejs Stable
php php Stable
python python Stable
ruby ruby Stable
rust rust Stable
swift swift Stable
webjs webjs Stable

Descriptive Attributes:

Attribute Type Description Examples Requirement Level Stability
telemetry.sdk.version string The version string of the telemetry SDK. 1.2.3 Required Stable