open-telemetry/semantic-conventions

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Defines standards for generating consistent, accessible telemetry across a variety of domains

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Dominant language: Jinja
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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Workflow failed: Daily link check (#438) Open

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4124 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Proposal: Add db.system.version attribute for monitored database server version Open

area:db enhancement experts needed triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4123 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Represent broadcast, multicast, and anycast receivers in network semantic conventions Open

area:destination area:network area:source enhancement experts needed triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4121 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Propose semantic conventions for Kubernetes PSI (Pressure Stall Information) metrics Open

area:k8s enhancement experts needed triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4118 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Add package.* attributes for runtime dependency inventory Open

area:artifact enhancement experts needed triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4117 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2026
[k8s] Define semantic conventions for k8s HPA labels and annotations Open

area:k8s enhancement experts needed triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4099 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Decide the attributes for L2/L3 routing and neighbor telemetry (OSPF, BGP, LLDP, ARP) Open

area:network triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4098 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 11, 2026
[k8s] Define Memory pod level limit and request metrics Open

triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4096 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Require SDKs to need to log when they ignore the OTEL_SEMCONV_EXCEPTION_SIGNAL_OPT_IN environment variable opt-in Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4095 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Stabilize general event semantic conventions Open

area:log docs schema tooling triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4092 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
IBM MQ messaging conventions: queue manager identifier and an ibmmq messaging.system value Open

area:messaging enhancement experts needed triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4081 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Recommend a default format for automatically assigned otel.component.name Open

triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4077 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Consumer guidance questions for bounded GenAI telemetry Open

triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4075 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Add k8s owner spec Open

area:k8s triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4074 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
[k8s] Define CPU pod level limit and request metrics Open

area:k8s k8s-stability triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4064 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Add `container.state.status` and `container.state.health.status` Open

area:container area:k8s k8s-stability triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4061 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 1, 2026
`url.subdomain` example is confusing or incorrect Open

area:url bug triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4037 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
[K8s] Promote memory paging fault metrics to release_candidate Open

area:k8s k8s-stability triage:needs-triage

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4036 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Clarify that `feature_flag.evaluation` is not automatically experiment exposure Open

triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4035 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Clarify server.address when a host agent connects to a local service via loopback Open

area:server triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4026 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Experience report: identifying the relaying host in a multi-hop telemetry pipeline Open

triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4024 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Semantic conventions for IAM Open

triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4022 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Add Browser Element Timing Event Open

triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4010 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Clarification on `service.name` default value Open

triage:accepted:needs-sig

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4009 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Links on page are all with same title: `Moved: Generative AI semantic conventions` Open

triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#4005 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Add RabbitMQ `cluster.name` and `vhost.name` attributes to messaging semantic conventions Open

area:messaging area:new enhancement experts needed triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3997 · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 11, 2026
[db/oracledb] Native traceparent propagation to V$SESSION Open

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3975 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Certificates semantic conventions Open

enhancement experts needed

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3969 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 4, 2026
test.case.result.status cannot express outcomes the frameworks already distinguish Open

area:cicd area:test triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3964 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
[area:k8s] Add k8s.<entity>.creation_time attributes for Kubernetes objects Open

area:k8s triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3958 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Define JVM executor metrics semantic conventions Open

triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3956 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Track stabilization of SDK self-observability metrics Open

triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3954 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 29, 2026
Introduce `network.source.*` and `network.destination.*` and migrate from local/peer Open

area:destination area:network area:source triage:needs-triage

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3947 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Onboarding federated semantic conventions repo for end user client apps Open

area:android area:app area:browser area:device area:ios area:new enhancement experts needed triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3940 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 27, 2026
[db] Add trace context propagation for MongoDB via the `comment` field Open

area:db triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3926 · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 23, 2026
rpc.request.metadata. & rpc.response.metadata need to align better with gRPCs semantics Open

area:rpc bug triage:needs-triage

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3924 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 23, 2026
all status codes except OK are errors in gRPC Open

area:rpc bug triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3923 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Add `network.peer.address_ipv4` and `network.peer.address_ipv6` attributes for dual-stack peers Open

area:network triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3915 · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Pull Request Dashboard Open

dashboard triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3912 · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Proposal: semantic conventions for data staleness / freshness Open

area:new enhancement experts needed triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3909 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 20, 2026
Make `dns.question.name` opt-in in `dns.lookup.duration` metric Open

area:dns triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3899 · Opened Jul 16, 2026
Stabilize `host.id` definition Open

area:host triage:accepted:ready-with-sig

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3897 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 15, 2026
gRPC: error.type for gRPC cannot have different semantics in server and client Open

area:rpc bug triage:needs-triage

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3874 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 9, 2026
gRPC: rpc.method_original is redundant in spans Open

area:rpc bug triage:rejected:declined

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open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3873 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 9, 2026
gRPC: attribute server.address and server.port will have performance overhead Open

area:rpc bug triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3871 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 9, 2026
gRPC: Histogram buckets advised for duration are too broad Open

area:rpc bug triage:accepted:ready

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3869 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 9, 2026
gRPC: Semantic conventions documentation metrics section doesn't have enough details Open

area:rpc bug triage:accepted:ready

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3868 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 9, 2026
Proposal: `vcs.change.id` conditionally required for `vcs.change.duration`,`time_to_approval`, and `time_to_merge` Open

area:vcs triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3865 · Opened Jul 8, 2026
`system`: Loosen definition of `system.process.count` Open

area:system triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3864 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 8, 2026
Add support for Azure Container Apps replica instance ID Open

area:azure area:cloud enhancement experts needed triage:needs-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3857 · Opened Jul 7, 2026

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