Johannes Tax

The messaging workgroup was capturing findings and results of discussions in this draft PR. As this draft PR got very big and it got hard to keep track of discussions...

The [instrumentation messaging workgroup](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community#special-interest-groups) is actively working on stabilizing messaging semantic conventions, based on this OTEP. We're meeting Thursdays at 8am PST. @paulparkinson It would be great if somebody from...

> I have yet to hear a definition that everyone (most people?) agree with. Can you link to one? Not _the_ one, but _another_ one: https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/blob/main/cloudevents/spec.md#event CloudEvents is a CNCF...

Another alternative option: one could also overload the `AddService` extension method on the resource builder, similar as it's done for the service instance id ([`autoGenerateServiceInstanceId`](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/blob/main/src/OpenTelemetry/Resources/ResourceBuilderExtensions.cs#L42)). So you could call ```csharp...

> It is effectively a one-hop mechanism, since it is not possible to implement a multi-hop "backtrace" solution (e.g. sampling on errors) given the existing Context APIs. @yurishkuro Would backpropagation...

@christophwille At least for Grafana Cloud, you can send data [directly via OTLP](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/otlp/send-data-otlp/) using the OTLP exporter. However, for a Loki instance running on-prem, there's currently no solution without running...

Thanks @carlosalberto for getting this going. > We currently have a "Implementations MAY ignore links with an invalid SpanContext", and I'm changing it to "Implementations SHOULD record links with an...

It would be worth getting @lmolkova's input, she has been (and is) thinking about this problems. The problems she highlights are mostly focusing on nested client spans (a client span...

> * recommend a default way to scrape metrics from kafka For broker metrics, this could be the receiver implemented for the collector, it already maintains a [list of supported...

> For example just document them once like Java does for kafka library - [...] That's fine for me, as long as what we document doesn't conflict with the generic...