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Specifications for OpenTelemetry
The [changelog](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md) in the spec repo has to be updated manually for each PR but sometimes PR authors forget to do so. Relying on reviewers to catch this is error-prone....
In OpenTracing, we have `CHILD_OF` and `FOLLOWS_FROM`. In the new project, we are considering whether to include this concept as a flag on the `SpanBuilder` option when setting the span...
Currently it is possible to refer to a Resource in spans and metrics. The Resource indicates where the signal was generated. However, we may need a way to reference the...
This is to follow up the non-blocking comment https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/2404#discussion_r828331793. Discussed during the 3/18/2022 triage meeting, we consider this as a nice wording change which doesn't block #2404.
All the 3 data types can be validated at design time using static analysis and also evaluated at run-time. For metrics exposed in Prometheus exposition format, we have Promtool, an...
The prometheus conversion currently requires metric names to be modified with the OTLP unit > Additionally, the unit MUST be added as a suffix to the metric name, and SHOULD...
Currently, instrumentation_scope is not used in the documentation for converting OTLP metrics to Prometheus. However, because it is part of identity for the OTLP model, it should be added as...
**What are you trying to achieve?** The client-side instrumentation SIG is working on defining telemetry for client-side applications, and we believe that we need a way to classify this telemetry...
OpenMetrics spec gives explicit advice to not include timestamps in exported data. https://github.com/OpenObservability/OpenMetrics/blob/main/specification/OpenMetrics.md#exposing-timestamps So we should probably follow this. Currently, we only mention timestamps for exemplars https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/specification/metrics/datamodel.md#exemplars-2 We should remove...
Strictly speaking `scheme` is not an HTTP concept. https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xhtml