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Add ability to indicate unstructured STDERR trace level

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Area-OpenTelemetry Issue-Enhancement Schema-Impact
Dominant language
Rust
Stars
523
Forks
75
Avg merge
3d 16h
Merged PRs (30d)
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Description

Summary of the new feature / enhancement

Currently, when a command resource is run and there is unstructured text sent to STDERR, we default to trace since we don't know if it contains sensitive information. It would be useful in the resource manifest to indicate the default trace level for unstructured STDERR content so that it can be a warn or info, for example.

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Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by locating command-resource STDERR handling and resource-manifest parsing, then determine how a configurable default trace level should flow through the existing logging behavior. Done means a manifest can select warn or info for unstructured STDERR instead of always defaulting to trace, with coverage for the new behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli, observability
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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