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Specifications for OpenTelemetry
## Changes Adds a new metric, `process.threads.count`, to the process metrics available. Related issues https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/12482
Fixes # #2581 [Common] Spec inconsistency with proto definition of Attributes ## Changes - Clarifies the Attribute support as defined by Proto `AnyValue` and clarifies Attribute Collections. - Clarifies and...
**What are you trying to achieve?** I was looking to update the https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib/tree/main/instrumentation/runtime Golang runtime metrics package to use the [`runtime/metrics`](https://pkg.go.dev/runtime/metrics) package introduced in Go-1.16. This package exposes official Go...
Currently, exporters in OTel only get access to spans that are already finished in order to send them to the backend. This proposal adds an option to also allow exporting...
**What are you trying to achieve?** I would like the [API Specifications for Metrics](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/specification/metrics/api.md) to support the Summary data type **Additional context.** I saw that the Metrics Data Model and...
**What are you trying to achieve?** I would like to add the following metrics to the metrics semantic conventions: - `process.open_file_descriptors`: Count of file descriptors a process has open -...
There are multiple places where we refer to the start-time in a gauge data model description: * In the overview description of the gauge https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/specification/metrics/datamodel.md#gauge. Here the start time is...
**What are you trying to achieve?** For some data sources (e.g. browsers) the wall clock reading might be unreliable. There are several ways to deal with that (e.g. using NTP...
It is possible (perhaps even likely) that instrumentation will generate metrics with cardinality explosions. There may be backends that can handle this, so it's not necessarily an error in the...
In OT Metric API Instruments Spec, we defined that each type of metric instrument should be binding with a default aggregation behavior / aggregator. In AWS CloudWatch, we support to...
