open-telemetry / open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation

Support additional telemetry metadata variation types

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Since Jul 17, 2026.

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Description

We have some tests with some variability that can't currently be well handled by the existing metadata system - for example runtime metrics. In runtime-metrics we are currently trying to separate the telemetry by runtime variation but using the same mechanism (metadataConfig) as we do for configuration-based variations.

On top of this, we aren't running exhaustive tests for the runtime variations, and are sometimes seeing some churn in the emitted attributes.

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We should determine if we need some additional when capabilities that can support things like runtime variations on top of standard config variations.

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