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Attribute name for defining observability signal (data type).

Open dmitryax opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Recently, we added an attribute to represent an OTel data type (metrics/traces/logs) to an internal collector metric in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/10593. The semantic conventions do not provide guidance on what the attribute should be called. The WIP OTEP suggests calling it otel.signal. Defining a name for this attribute is useful independently of the OTEP.

otel.signal should like a good option. Looking for other opinions.

dmitryax avatar Jul 23 '24 21:07 dmitryax