open-telemetry / open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java
Is there any plan to increase the instrument name length?
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I checked the history of increasing from 63 to 255.
Could consider the situation of using more than 255 instrument names?
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/pull/5697
Describe the solution you'd like
Unlimited, but I wish I could specify the settings.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Thanks to so many people, I'm using good functions well.
We have installed an openelemetry java agent in our service to use openelemetry and opensearchapm.
I got caught in instrument-name limit (255) causing WARN. Is there a plan to change the limit?
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the linked pull request #5697 and the Java agent behavior that emits the warning when an instrument name exceeds 255 characters. Clarify whether the limit should be configurable or removed, then identify the affected implementation and tests; done means the agreed behavior is implemented and covered by tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- observability-sre
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100