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# Semantic conventions for HTTP
**Status**: [Experimental, Feature-freeze][DocumentStatus]
This document defines semantic conventions for HTTP spans, metrics and logs.
They can be used for http and https schemes
and various HTTP versions like 1.1, 2 and SPDY.
> **Warning**
> Existing HTTP instrumentations that are using
> [v1.20.0 of this document](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/v1.20.0/specification/trace/semantic_conventions/http.md)
> (or prior):
>
> * SHOULD NOT change the version of the HTTP or networking attributes that they emit
> until the HTTP semantic conventions are marked stable (HTTP stabilization will
> include stabilization of a core set of networking attributes which are also used
> in HTTP instrumentations).
> * SHOULD introduce an environment variable `OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_OPT_IN`
> in the existing major version which is a comma-separated list of values.
> The only values defined so far are:
> * `http` - emit the new, stable HTTP and networking attributes,
> and stop emitting the old experimental HTTP and networking attributes
> that the instrumentation emitted previously.
> * `http/dup` - emit both the old and the stable HTTP and networking attributes,
> allowing for a seamless transition.
> * The default behavior (in the absence of one of these values) is to continue
> emitting whatever version of the old experimental HTTP and networking attributes
> the instrumentation was emitting previously.
> * SHOULD maintain (security patching at a minimum) the existing major version
> for at least six months after it starts emitting both sets of attributes.
> * SHOULD drop the environment variable in the next major version (stable
> next major version SHOULD NOT be released prior to October 1, 2023).
Semantic conventions for HTTP are defined for the following signals:
* [HTTP Spans](http-spans.md): Semantic Conventions for HTTP client and server *spans*.
* [HTTP Metrics](http-metrics.md): Semantic Conventions for HTTP client and server *metrics*.
[DocumentStatus]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/v1.21.0/specification/document-status.md