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Add OTEL_SERVICE_NAME environment variable #1677

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### SDK Configuration

- Add `OTEL_SERVICE_NAME` environment variable. ([#1677](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/1677))
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I would add NAMESPACE and INSTANCE as well. Service name should not be treated special than the others.

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I usually prefer to keep PR scope small, if possible. This PR solves one specific issue. I am happy to file a follow-up one, if you feel this is needed :)

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I have never heard of anyone using namespace (but maybe it just works so well that there are no questions?). instance.id has is currently IMHO too vaguely defined to be useful, as discussed in #1034. So the service name is IMHO definitely the most useful one.

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(If exporter specs are updated to include service.namespace in their reported service, which maybe they should, then adding a special envvar for service.namespace might make sense)

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If exporter specs are updated to include service.namespace in their reported service, which maybe they should, then adding a special envvar for service.namespace might make sense

I think the "service name" as defined right now is unique within a namespace, and the fact that Jaeger/Zipkin don't have this concept made us use just "service name" which is wrong.

@Oberon00 I agree that exporters that only have a "service name" concept should use actually "{service.namespace}/{service.name}" as the name.

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https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/d001d5d25ea11a28bd4c4ec2652e2db1a41fc064/specification/trace/sdk_exporters/zipkin.md#:~:text=note%2C%20the%20attribute%20service.namespace%20must%20not%20be%20used%20for%20the%20zipkin%20service%20name%20and%20should%20be%20sent%20as%20a%20zipkin%20tag.

Note, the attribute service.namespace MUST NOT be used for the Zipkin service name and should be sent as a Zipkin tag.

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/b46bcab5fb709381f1fd52096a19541370c7d1b3/specification/resource/semantic_conventions/README.md#:~:text=Note,same%20string

Note: service.namespace and service.name are not intended to be concatenated for the purpose of forming a single globally unique name for the service. For example the following 2 sets of attributes actually describe 2 different services (despite the fact that the concatenation would result in the same string):

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We can change that, but it was intentionally not suppose to be concatenated to avoid the need to parse the namespace out of the name

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I do understand that, and I've just added an open question to my PR. I think in case of one value string like Jaeger/Zipkin we have to guarantee the uniqueness somehow, otherwise we will have conflicts. For example 2 service names named "kafka" run by 2 teams/namespaces "a" and "b" will be seen as same service by these backends.

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happy to change that. Given that namespace is empty in many cases now it is not such a breaking change

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Does this discussion/related PR block this PR from merging?


## v1.3.0 (2021-05-05)

### Context
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|Feature |Go |Java|JS |Python|Ruby|Erlang|PHP|Rust|C++|.Net|Swift|
|----------------------------------------------|---|----|---|------|----|------|---|----|---|----|-----|
|OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES | + | + | + | + | + | + | - | + | - | + | - |
|OTEL_SERVICE_NAME | | | | | | | | | | | |
|OTEL_LOG_LEVEL | - | - | + | [-][py1059] | + | + | - | | - | - | - | |
|OTEL_PROPAGATORS | - | + | | + | + | + | - | - | - | - | - |
|OTEL_BSP_* | - | + | | + | + | + | - | + | - | - | - |
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| Name | Description | Default | Notes |
| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES | Key-value pairs to be used as resource attributes | | See [Resource SDK](./resource/sdk.md#specifying-resource-information-via-an-environment-variable) for more details. |
| OTEL_SERVICE_NAME | Sets the value of the [`service.name`](./resource/semantic_conventions/README.md#service) resource attribute | | If `service.name` is also provided in `OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES`, then `OTEL_SERVICE_NAME` takes precedence. |
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| OTEL_LOG_LEVEL | Log level used by the SDK logger | "info" | |
| OTEL_PROPAGATORS | Propagators to be used as a comma separated list | "tracecontext,baggage" | Values MUST be deduplicated in order to register a `Propagator` only once. |
| OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER | Sampler to be used for traces | "parentbased_always_on" | See [Sampling](./trace/sdk.md#sampling) |
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