Status: Mixed This document defines standard attributes for resources. These attributes are typically used in the Resource and are also recommended to be used anywhere else where there is a need to describe a resource in a consistent manner. The majority of these attributes are inherited from OpenCensus Resource standard. TODOs Add more compute units: AppEngine unit, etc. Add Web Browser. Decide if lower case strings only. Consider to add optional/required for each attribute and combination o...| OpenTelemetry
This specification defines standard HTTP headers and a value format to propagate context information that enables distributed tracing scenarios. The specification standardizes how context information is sent and modified between services. Context information uniquely identifies individual requests in a distributed system and also defines a means to add and propagate provider-specific context information.| www.w3.org
Status: Stable, except where otherwise specified The Tracing API consists of these main components: TracerProvider is the entry point of the API. It provides access to Tracers. Tracer is responsible for creating Spans. Span is the API to trace an operation. Data types While languages and platforms have different ways of representing data, this section defines some generic requirements for this API. Time OpenTelemetry can operate on time values up to nanosecond (ns) precision. The representati...| OpenTelemetry
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