Status: Stable Motivation Telemetry sources such as instrumented applications and consumers of telemetry such as observability backends sometimes make implicit assumptions about the emitted telemetry. They assume that the telemetry will contain certain attributes or otherwise have a certain shape and composition of data (this is referred to as “telemetry schema” throughout this document). This makes it difficult or impossible to change the composition of the emitted telemetry data without...| OpenTelemetry
Specification documents (files) may explicitly define a “Status”, typically shown immediately after the document title. When present, the “Status” applies to the individual document only and not to the entire specification or any other documents. The following table describes what the statuses mean. Maturity levels The support guarantees and allowed changes are governed by the maturity level of the document. Maturity levels are defined in OTEP 0232 and follow the OpenTelemetry project...| OpenTelemetry
This document defines some terms that are used across this specification. Some other fundamental terms are documented in the overview document. User Roles Application Owner The maintainer of an application or service, responsible for configuring and managing the lifecycle of the OpenTelemetry SDK. Library Author The maintainer of a shared library which is depended upon by many applications, and targeted by OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Instrumentation Author The maintainer of OpenTelemetry i...| OpenTelemetry