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Semantic Conventions for Database Metrics
Status: Experimental
The conventions described in this section are specific to SQL and NoSQL clients.
Disclaimer: These are initial database client metric instruments and attributes but more may be added in the future.
- Database operation
- Connection pools
- Metric:
db.client.connections.usage - Metric:
db.client.connections.idle.max - Metric:
db.client.connections.idle.min - Metric:
db.client.connections.max - Metric:
db.client.connections.pending_requests - Metric:
db.client.connections.timeouts - Metric:
db.client.connections.create_time - Metric:
db.client.connections.wait_time - Metric:
db.client.connections.use_time
- Metric:
Warning Existing database instrumentations that are using v1.24.0 of this document (or prior) SHOULD NOT change the version of the database conventions that they emit until a transition plan to the (future) stable semantic conventions has been published. Conventions include, but are not limited to, attributes, metric and span names, and unit of measure.
Database operation
Metric: db.client.operation.duration
Status: Experimental
This metric is required.
When this metric is reported alongside a database operation span, the metric value SHOULD be the same as the database operation span duration.
This metric SHOULD be specified with
ExplicitBucketBoundaries
of [ 0.001, 0.005, 0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, 1, 5, 10 ].
| Name | Instrument Type | Unit (UCUM) | Description | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
db.client.operation.duration |
Histogram | s |
Duration of database client operations. |
| Attribute | Type | Description | Examples | Requirement Level | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
db.system |
string | An identifier for the database management system (DBMS) product being used. See below for a list of well-known identifiers. | other_sql |
Required |
|
db.collection.name |
string | The name of a collection (table, container) within the database. [1] | public.users; customers |
Conditionally Required [2] |
|
db.namespace |
string | The name of the database, fully qualified within the server address and port. [3] | customers; test.users |
Conditionally Required If available. |
|
db.operation.name |
string | The name of the operation or command being executed. | findAndModify; HMSET; SELECT |
Conditionally Required [4] |
|
error.type |
string | Describes a class of error the operation ended with. [5] | timeout; java.net.UnknownHostException; server_certificate_invalid; 500 |
Conditionally Required If and only if the operation failed. |
|
server.port |
int | Server port number. [6] | 80; 8080; 443 |
Conditionally Required [7] |
|
network.peer.address |
string | Peer address of the database node where the operation was performed. [8] | 10.1.2.80; /tmp/my.sock |
Recommended If applicable for this database system. |
|
network.peer.port |
int | Peer port number of the network connection. | 65123 |
Recommended if and only if network.peer.address is set. |
|
server.address |
string | Name of the database host. [9] | example.com; 10.1.2.80; /tmp/my.sock |
Recommended |
[1]: If the collection name is parsed from the query, it SHOULD match the value provided in the query and may be qualified with the schema and database name.
[2]: If readily available. Otherwise, if the instrumentation library parses db.query.text to capture db.collection.name, then it SHOULD be the first collection name found in the query.
[3]: If a database system has multiple namespace components, they SHOULD be concatenated (potentially using database system specific conventions) from most general to most specific namespace component, and more specific namespaces SHOULD NOT be captured without the more general namespaces, to ensure that "startswith" queries for the more general namespaces will be valid.
Semantic conventions for individual database systems SHOULD document what db.namespace means in the context of that system.
[4]: If readily available. Otherwise, if the instrumentation library parses db.query.text to capture db.operation.name, then it SHOULD be the first operation name found in the query.
[5]: The error.type SHOULD match the error code returned by the database or the client library, the canonical name of exception that occurred, or another low-cardinality error identifier. Instrumentations SHOULD document the list of errors they report.
[6]: When observed from the client side, and when communicating through an intermediary, server.port SHOULD represent the server port behind any intermediaries, for example proxies, if it's available.
[7]: If using a port other than the default port for this DBMS and if server.address is set.
[8]: Semantic conventions for individual database systems SHOULD document whether network.peer.* attributes are applicable. Network peer address and port are useful when the application interacts with individual database nodes directly.
If a database operation involved multiple network calls (for example retries), the address of the last contacted node SHOULD be used.
[9]: When observed from the client side, and when communicating through an intermediary, server.address SHOULD represent the server address behind any intermediaries, for example proxies, if it's available.
db.system 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.
error.type 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 |
|---|---|---|
_OTHER |
A fallback error value to be used when the instrumentation doesn't define a custom value. |
Connection pools
The following metric instruments describe database client connection pool operations.
Metric: db.client.connections.usage
This metric is required.
| Name | Instrument Type | Unit (UCUM) | Description | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
db.client.connections.usage |
UpDownCounter | {connection} |
The number of connections that are currently in state described by the state attribute |
| Attribute | Type | Description | Examples | Requirement Level | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
db.client.connections.pool.name |
string | The name of the connection pool; unique within the instrumented application. In case the connection pool implementation doesn't provide a name, instrumentation should use a combination of server.address and server.port attributes formatted as server.address:server.port. |
myDataSource |
Required |
|
db.client.connections.state |
string | The state of a connection in the pool | idle |
Required |
db.client.connections.state 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 |
|---|---|---|
idle |
idle | |
used |
used |
Metric: db.client.connections.idle.max
This metric is recommended.
| Name | Instrument Type | Unit (UCUM) | Description | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
db.client.connections.idle.max |
UpDownCounter | {connection} |
The maximum number of idle open connections allowed |
| Attribute | Type | Description | Examples | Requirement Level | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
db.client.connections.pool.name |
string | The name of the connection pool; unique within the instrumented application. In case the connection pool implementation doesn't provide a name, instrumentation should use a combination of server.address and server.port attributes formatted as server.address:server.port. |
myDataSource |
Required |
Metric: db.client.connections.idle.min
This metric is recommended.
| Name | Instrument Type | Unit (UCUM) | Description | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
db.client.connections.idle.min |
UpDownCounter | {connection} |
The minimum number of idle open connections allowed |
| Attribute | Type | Description | Examples | Requirement Level | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
db.client.connections.pool.name |
string | The name of the connection pool; unique within the instrumented application. In case the connection pool implementation doesn't provide a name, instrumentation should use a combination of server.address and server.port attributes formatted as server.address:server.port. |
myDataSource |
Required |
Metric: db.client.connections.max
This metric is recommended.
| Name | Instrument Type | Unit (UCUM) | Description | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
db.client.connections.max |
UpDownCounter | {connection} |
The maximum number of open connections allowed |
| Attribute | Type | Description | Examples | Requirement Level | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
db.client.connections.pool.name |
string | The name of the connection pool; unique within the instrumented application. In case the connection pool implementation doesn't provide a name, instrumentation should use a combination of server.address and server.port attributes formatted as server.address:server.port. |
myDataSource |
Required |
Metric: db.client.connections.pending_requests
This metric is recommended.
| Attribute | Type | Description | Examples | Requirement Level | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
db.client.connections.pool.name |
string | The name of the connection pool; unique within the instrumented application. In case the connection pool implementation doesn't provide a name, instrumentation should use a combination of server.address and server.port attributes formatted as server.address:server.port. |
myDataSource |
Required |
Metric: db.client.connections.timeouts
This metric is recommended.
| Attribute | Type | Description | Examples | Requirement Level | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
db.client.connections.pool.name |
string | The name of the connection pool; unique within the instrumented application. In case the connection pool implementation doesn't provide a name, instrumentation should use a combination of server.address and server.port attributes formatted as server.address:server.port. |
myDataSource |
Required |
Metric: db.client.connections.create_time
This metric is recommended.
| Name | Instrument Type | Unit (UCUM) | Description | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
db.client.connections.create_time |
Histogram | ms |
The time it took to create a new connection |
| Attribute | Type | Description | Examples | Requirement Level | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
db.client.connections.pool.name |
string | The name of the connection pool; unique within the instrumented application. In case the connection pool implementation doesn't provide a name, instrumentation should use a combination of server.address and server.port attributes formatted as server.address:server.port. |
myDataSource |
Required |
Metric: db.client.connections.wait_time
This metric is recommended.
| Name | Instrument Type | Unit (UCUM) | Description | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
db.client.connections.wait_time |
Histogram | ms |
The time it took to obtain an open connection from the pool |
| Attribute | Type | Description | Examples | Requirement Level | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
db.client.connections.pool.name |
string | The name of the connection pool; unique within the instrumented application. In case the connection pool implementation doesn't provide a name, instrumentation should use a combination of server.address and server.port attributes formatted as server.address:server.port. |
myDataSource |
Required |
Metric: db.client.connections.use_time
This metric is recommended.
| Name | Instrument Type | Unit (UCUM) | Description | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
db.client.connections.use_time |
Histogram | ms |
The time between borrowing a connection and returning it to the pool |
| Attribute | Type | Description | Examples | Requirement Level | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
db.client.connections.pool.name |
string | The name of the connection pool; unique within the instrumented application. In case the connection pool implementation doesn't provide a name, instrumentation should use a combination of server.address and server.port attributes formatted as server.address:server.port. |
myDataSource |
Required |