open-telemetry / open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java
Feedback / interest in a user facing log event API?
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Feature Request
- Dominant language
- Java
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Description
OTEP#265 lays out OpenTelemetry's vision for events, which includes a user facing logging API to emit events.
I proposed work in this direction, but it didn't get any traction:
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/pull/7905
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/15572
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-examples/pull/954
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/pull/7907
Opening this issue to track and to understand the level of interest.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading OTEP#265, event-vision.md, then review the referenced Java SDK, instrumentation, and examples pull requests to understand the proposed direction. The issue does not define a concrete implementation target; done would require agreement on the user-facing event API scope and an accepted implementation plan.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- observability-sre
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100