CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

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• Fix the unit of metric.process.runtime.jvm.system.cpu.load_1m to be {run_queue_item} (#95)
• Update .count metric naming convention so that it only applies to UpDownCounters, and add that .total should not be used by either Counters or UpDownCounters (#107)

v1.21.0 (2023-07-13)

Note: This is the first release of Semantic Conventions separate from the Specification.

• Add GCP Bare Metal Solution as a cloud platform (#64)
• Clarify the scope of the HTTP client span. (#3290)
• Add moratorium on relying on schema transformations for telemetry stability (#3380)
• Mark "Instrumentation Units" and "Instrumentation Types" sections of the general metric semantic conventions as stable (#3294)
• Add clarification that UCUM c/s variant applies to all units other than 1 and those using annotations. (#3393)
• Specify that seconds should be used for measuring durations. (#3388)
• Change http.server.duration and http.client.duration units to seconds (#3390)
• BREAKING: Remove messaging.consumer.id, make messaging.client_id generic (#3336)
• Add transition plan for upcoming breaking changes to the unstable HTTP semantic conventions. (#3443)
• Rename net.peer.*, net.host.*, and net.sock.* attributes to align with ECS (#3402) BREAKING: rename net.peer.name to server.address on client side and to client.address on server side, net.peer.port to server.port on client side and to client.port on server side, net.host.name and net.host.port to server.address and server.port (since net.host.* attributes only applied to server instrumentation), net.sock.peer.addr to server.socket.address on client side and to client.socket.address on server side, net.sock.peer.port to server.socket.port on client side and to client.socket.port on server side, net.sock.peer.name to server.socket.domain (since net.sock.peer.name only applied to client instrumentation), net.sock.host.addr to server.socket.address (since net.sock.host.* only applied to server instrumentation), net.sock.host.port to server.socket.port (similarly since net.sock.host.* only applied to server instrumentation), http.client_ip to client.address
• BREAKING: Introduce network.transport defined as OSI Transport Layer or Inter-process Communication method. Introduce network.type defined as OSI Network Layer or non-OSI equivalent. Remove net.transport and net.sock.family. Rename net.protocol.* to network.protocol.*, net.host.connection.* to network.connection.*, and net.host.carrier.* to network.carrier.*. (#3426)
• BREAKING: Adopt ECS attributes in HTTP semantic conventions. Renames: http.method to http.request.method, http.status_code to http.response.status_code, http.request_content_length to http.request.body.size, http.response_content_length to http.response.body.size, http.url to url.full, http.scheme to url.scheme, and removes http.target breaking it down to http.target to url.path, url.query, and url.fragment. (#3355)
• Add gcp.cloud_run.job.execution and gcp.cloud_run.job.task_id resource attributes for GCP Cloud Run Jobs (#3378)
• Specify second unit (s) and advice bucket boundaries of [] for process.runtime.jvm.gc.duration. (#3458)
• Specify the value range for JVM CPU metrics. (#13)
• Rename process.runtime.jvm.cpu.utilization to process.runtime.jvm.cpu.recent_utilization. (#53)
• Clarify process.runtime.jvm.threads.count refers to platform threads. (#54)
• Add gcp.gce.instance.name and gcp.gce.instance.hostname resource attributes for GCP Compute Engine VMs. (#15)
• Add note that HTTP duration metrics should match HTTP span duration. (#69)
• Clarify when HTTP client spans should end. (#70)
• Clarify that OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_OPT_IN is a comma-separated list of values (#104)
• Add process.runtime.jvm.cpu.time metric. (#55)
• Split out sections for proposed stable JVM metrics and experimental JVM metrics. (#56)
• Make url.query conditionally required for HTTP spans. (#118)
• Change server.address and server.port requirement levels on HTTP server metrics from required to opt_in. (#109)
• Updated AWS Java Lambda guidance - using system properties. (#27)
• Limit http.request.method values to a closed set of known values, introduce http.request.method_original for the original value. (#17)
• Mark service.version as stable. (#106)
• Mark initial set of HTTP semantic conventions as frozen (#105)
• BREAKING: Remove messaging.source.* attributes and use messaging.destination.* attributes on producer and consumer to describe messaging queue or topic. (#100)
• Mark process.runtime.jvm.system.cpu.load_1m and process.runtime.jvm.system.cpu.utilization metrics as opt-in. (#57)
• Add container image.id, command, command_line and command_args resource attributes. (#39)
• Add Elasticsearch client semantic conventions. (#23)
• Add YAML definitions for log semantic conventions and define requirement levels (#133)
• Add markdown file for url semantic conventions (#174)
• Add system.cpu.physical.count and system.cpu.logical.count metrics. (#99)

v1.20.0 (2023-04-07)

This and earlier versions were released as part of the Specification. See the specification changelog if you'd like to git blame a changelog entry.

• Clarify that attribute requirement levels apply to the instrumentation library (#3289)
• Fix grammatical number of metric units. (#3298)
• Rename net.app.protocol.(name|version) to net.protocol.(name|version) (#3272)
• Replace http.flavor with net.protocol.(name|version) (#3272)
• Metric requirement levels are now stable (#3271)
• BREAKING: remove messaging.destination.kind and messaging.source.kind. (#3214, #3348)
• Define attributes collected for cosmosdb by Cosmos DB SDK (#3097)
• Clarify stability requirements of semantic conventions (#3225)
• BREAKING: Change span statuses for gRPC server spans. (#3333)
• Stabilize key components of service.* and telemetry.sdk.* resource semantic conventions. (#3202)
• Fixed attributes requirement level in semantic conventions for hardware metrics (#3258)
• Added AWS S3 semantic conventions. (#3251)
• Fix units in the Kafka metric semantic conventions. (#3300)
• Add Trino to Database specific conventions (#3347)
• Change db.statement to only be collected if there is sanitization. (#3127)
• BREAKING: Remove http.status_code attribute from the http.server.active_requests metric. (#3366)
• Mark attribute requirement levels as stable (#3368)

v1.19.0 (2023-03-06)

• Move X-Ray Env Variable propagation to span link instead of parent for AWS Lambda. (#3166)
• Add heroku resource semantic conventions. #3075
• BREAKING: Rename faas.execution to faas.invocation_id (#3209)
• BREAKING: Change faas.max_memory units to Bytes instead of MB (#3209)
• BREAKING: Expand scope of faas.id to cloud.resource_id (#3188)
• Add Connect RPC specific conventions (#3116)
• Rename JVM metric attribute value from nonheap to non_heap (#3250)
• Mark the attribute naming guidelines in the specification as stable. (#3220)
• Mark telemetry schema readme stable. (#3221)
• Remove mention of net.transport from HTTP semantic conventions (#3244)
• Clarifies that if an HTTP client request is explicitly made to an IP address, e.g. http://x.x.x.x:8080, then net.peer.name SHOULD be the IP address x.x.x.x (#3276)
• Mark net.sock.host.port as conditionally required. (#3246)
• Rename Optional attribute requirement level to Opt-In. (#3228)
• Rename http.user_agent to user_agent.original. (#3190)
• Expand the declaration of pool.name. (#3050)

v1.18.0 (2023-02-09)

• Add Cloud Spanner and Microsoft SQL Server Compact to db.system semantic conventions (#3105).
• Enable semantic convention tooling for metrics in spec (#3119)
• Rename google openshift platform attribute from google_cloud_openshift to gcp_openshift to match the existing cloud.provider prefix. (#3095)
• Changes http server span names from {http.route} to {http.method} {http.route} (when route is available), and from HTTP {http.method} to {http.method} (when route is not available). Changes http client span names from HTTP {http.method} to {http.method}. (#3165)
• Mark http.server.duration and http.client.duration metrics as required, and mark all other HTTP metrics as optional. #3158
• Add net.host.port to http.server.active_requests metrics attributes. #3158
• http.route SHOULD contain the "application root" if there is one. (#3164)

v1.17.0 (2023-01-17)

• Clarify common HTTP attributes apply to both clients and servers (#3044)
• Add code.lineno source code attribute (#3029)
• Add ClickHouse to db.system semantic conventions (#3011)
• Refactor messaging attributes and per-message attributes in batching scenarios. (#2957). BREAKING: rename messaging.consumer_id to messaging.consumer.id, messaging.destination to messaging.destination.name, messaging.temp_destination to messaging.destination.temporary, messaging.destination_kind to messaging.destination.kind, messaging.message_id to messaging.message.id, messaging.protocol to net.app.protocol.name, messaging.protocol_version, net.app.protocol.version, messaging.conversation_id to messaging.message.conversation_id, messaging.message_payload_size_bytes to messaging.message.payload_size_bytes, messaging.message_payload_compressed_size_bytes to messaging.message.payload_compressed_size_bytes, messaging.rabbitmq.routing_key: messaging.rabbitmq.destination.routing_key, messaging.kafka.message_key to messaging.kafka.message.key, messaging.kafka.consumer_group to messaging.kafka.consumer.group, messaging.kafka.partition to messaging.kafka.destination.partition, messaging.kafka.tombstone to messaging.kafka.message.tombstone, messaging.rocketmq.message_type to messaging.rocketmq.message.type, messaging.rocketmq.message_tag to messaging.rocketmq.message.tag, messaging.rocketmq.message_keys to messaging.rocketmq.message.keys; Removed messaging.url; Renamed send operation to publish; Split destination and source namespaces and clarify per-message attributes in batching scenarios.

v1.16.0 (2022-12-08)

• Add process.runtime.jvm.gc.duration metric to semantic conventions. (#2903)
• Make http.status_code metric attribute an int. (#2943)
• Add IBM Cloud as a cloud provider. (#2965)
• Add semantic conventions for Feature Flags (#2529)
• Rename rpc.request.metadata.<key> and rpc.response.metadata.<key> to rpc.grpc.request.metadata.<key> and rpc.grpc.response.metadata.<key> (#2981)
• List the machine-id as potential source for a unique host.id (#2978)
• Add messaging.kafka.message.offset attribute. (#2982)
• Update hardware metrics to use direction as per general semantic conventions (#2942)

v1.15.0 (2022-11-09)

• Change to messaging.kafka.max.lag from UpDownCounter to Gauge (and rename it) (#2837)
• Add daemon attribute to jvm threads metric (#2828)
• Add gRPC request and response metadata semantic conventions (#2874)
• Add process.paging.faults metric to semantic conventions (#2827)
• Define semantic conventions yaml for non-otlp conventions (#2850)
• Add more semantic convetion attributes of Apache RocketMQ (#2881)
• Add process.runtime.jvm.memory.usage_after_last_gc metric to semantic conventions. (#2901)

v1.14.0 (2022-10-04)

• Add process.context_switches, and process.open_file_descriptors, to the metrics semantic conventions (#2706)
• Add exceptions to the logs semantic conventions (#2819)
• Make context propagation requirements explicit for messaging semantic conventions (#2750).
• Update http metrics to use http.route instead of http.target for servers, drop http.url for clients (#2818).

v1.13.0 (2022-09-19)

• Add net.app.protocol.* attributes (#2602)
• Add network metrics to process semantic conventions (#2556)
• Adopt attribute requirement levels in semantic conventions (#2594)
• Add semantic conventions for GraphQL (#2456)
• Change cloudevents.event_spec_version and cloudevents.event_type level from required to recommended (#2618)
• Change faas.document.time and faas.time level from required to recommended (#2627)
• Add rpc.grpc.status_code to RPC metric semantic conventions (#2604)
• Add http.*.*.size metric semantic conventions for tracking size of requests / responses for http servers / clients (#2588)
• BREAKING: rename net.peer.ip to net.sock.peer.addr, net.host.ip to net.sock.host.addr, net.peer.name to net.sock.peer.name for socket-level instrumentation. Define socket-level attributes and clarify logical peer and host attributes meaning (#2594)
• Add semantic conventions for JVM buffer pool usage (#2650)
• Improve the definition of state attribute for metric system.network.connections (#2663)
• Add process.parent_pid attribute for use in reporting parent process id (PID) (#2691)
• Add OpenSearch to db.system semantic conventions (#2718)
• Clarify when "count" is used instead of pluralization (#2613)
• Add the convention 'type' to the YAML definitions for all existing semantic conventions (#2693)
• Remove alternative attribute sets from HTTP semantic conventions (#2469)

v1.12.0 (2022-06-10)

• Add semantic conventions for JVM CPU metrics (#2292)
• Add details for FaaS conventions for Azure Functions and allow FaaS/Cloud resources as span attributes on incoming FaaS spans (#2502)
• Define attribute requirement levels (#2522)
• Initial addition of Kafka metrics (#2485).
• Add semantic conventions for Kafka consumer metrics (#2536)
• Add database connection pool metrics semantic conventions (#2273).
• Specify how to obtain a Ruby thread's id (#2508).
• Refactor jvm classes semantic conventions (#2550).
• Add browser.* attributes (#2353).
• Change JVM runtime metric process.runtime.jvm.memory.max to process.runtime.jvm.memory.limit (#2605).
• Add semantic conventions for hardware metrics (#2518).

v1.11.0 (2022-05-04)

• Note added that net.peer.name SHOULD NOT be set if capturing it would require an extra reverse DNS lookup. And moved net.peer.name from common http attributes to just client http attributes. (#2446)
• Add net.host.name and net.host.ip conventions for rpc server spans. (#2447)
• Allow all metric conventions to be either synchronous or asynchronous. (#2458
• Update JVM metrics with JMX Gatherer values (#2478)
• Add HTTP/3 (#2507)
• Map SunOS to solaris for os.type resource attribute (#2509)

v1.10.0 (2022-04-01)

• Define span structure for HTTP retries and redirects. (#2078)
• Changed rpc.system to an enum (allowing custom values), and changed the rpc.system value for .NET WCF from wcf to dotnet_wcf. (#2377)
• Define JavaScript runtime semantic conventions. (#2290)
• Add semantic conventions for CloudEvents. (#1978)
• Add process.cpu.utilization metric. (#2436)
• Add rpc.system value for Apache Dubbo. (#2453)

v1.9.0 (2022-02-10)

• Align runtime metric and resource namespaces (#2112)
• Prohibit usage of retired names in semantic conventions. (#2191)
• Add device.manufacturer to describe mobile device manufacturers. (2100)
• Change golang namespace to 'go', rather than 'gc' (#2262)
• Add JVM memory runtime semantic conventions. (#2272)
• Add opentracing.ref_type semantic convention. (#2297)

v1.8.0 (2021-11-12)

• Add k8s.container.restart_count Resource attribute. (#1945)
• Add "IBM z/Architecture" (s390x) to host.arch (#2055)
• BREAKING: Remove db.cassandra.keyspace and db.hbase.namespace, and clarify db.name (#1973)
• Add AWS App Runner as a cloud platform (#2004)
• Add Tencent Cloud as a cloud provider. (#2006)
• Don't set Span.Status for 4xx http status codes for SERVER spans. (#1998)
• Add attributes for Apache RocketMQ. (#1904)
• Define http tracing attributes provided at span creation time (#1916)
• Change meaning and discourage use of faas.trigger for FaaS clients (outgoing). (#1921)
• Clarify difference between container.name and k8s.container.name (#1980)

v1.7.0 (2021-09-30)

• BREAKING: Change enum member IDs to lowercase without spaces, not starting with numbers. Change values of net.host.connection.subtype to match. (#1863)
• Lambda instrumentations should check if X-Ray parent context is valid (#1867)
• Update YAML definitions for events (#1843):
  • Mark exception as semconv type "event".
  • Add YAML definitions for grpc events.
• Add messaging.consumer_id to differentiate between message consumers. (#1810)
• Clarifications for http.client_ip and http.host. (#1890)
• Add HTTP request and response headers semantic conventions. (#1898)

v1.6.0 (2021-08-06)

• Add mobile-related network state: net.host.connection.type, net.host.connection.subtype & net.host.carrier.* #1647
• Adding alibaba cloud as a cloud provider. (#1831)

v1.5.0 (2021-07-08)

• Clean up FaaS semantic conventions, add aws.lambda.invoked_arn. (#1781)
• Remove rpc.jsonrpc.method, clarify that rpc.method should be used instead. (#1748)

v1.4.0 (2021-06-07)

• Add JSON RPC specific conventions (#1643).
• Add Memcached to Database specific conventions (#1689).
• Add semantic convention attributes for the host device and added OS name and version (#1596).
• Add CockroachDB to Database specific conventions (#1725).

v1.3.0 (2021-05-05)

• Fix the inconsistent formatting of semantic convention enums. (#1598)
• Add details for filling resource for AWS Lambda. (#1610)
• Add already specified messaging.rabbitmq.routing_key span attribute key to the respective YAML file. (#1651)
• Clarify usage of "otel." attribute namespace. (#1640)
• Add possibility to disable db.statement via instrumentation configuration. (#1659)

v1.2.0 (2021-04-14)

• Add semantic conventions for AWS SDK operations and DynamoDB (#1422)
• Add details for filling semantic conventions for AWS Lambda (#1442)
• Update semantic conventions to distinguish between int and double (#1550)
• Add semantic convention for AWS ECS task revision (#1581)

v1.1.0 (2021-03-11)

• Add elasticsearch to db.system semantic conventions (#1463)
• Add arch to host semantic conventions (#1483)
• Add runtime to container semantic conventions (#1482)
• Rename gcp_gke to gcp_kubernetes_engine to have consistency with other Google products under cloud.infrastructure_service (#1496)
• http.url MUST NOT contain credentials (#1502)
• Add aws.eks.cluster.arn to EKS specific semantic conventions (#1484)
• Rename zone to availability_zone in cloud semantic conventions (#1495)
• Rename cloud.infrastructure_service to cloud.platform (#1530)
• Add section describing that libraries and the collector should autogenerate the semantic convention keys. (#1515)

v1.0.1 (2021-02-11)

N/A

v1.0.0 (2021-02-10)

First release of OpenTelemetry Specification. Semantic conventions were not explicitly tracked in changelog up to this point.