open-telemetry / open-telemetry/weaver

Support tags/annotations per group, attribute, enum, ...

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Description

There are many situations where an extensibility mechanism, such as tags, would be beneficial to support in Weaver.

Examples of tags:

  • privacy_sensitivity: specifies the privacy level/sensitivity of a specific attribute.
  • data_classification: specifies the classification of an attribute in a security context.
  • db_mapping: specifies a specific data mapping for systems deriving a DDL from a semantic convention registry.
  • proto_field_number: specifies a protobuf field number for a specific attribute.

Note: The semantics of the tags should be definable by the semantic conventions themselves. A namespace mechanism should also be used to allow the definition of tags whose semantics are defined and standardized by OTEL, while also enabling the community to define their own tags.

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Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating Weaver’s semantic-convention model and the validation or code-generation paths that consume groups, attributes, and enums; done would require a defined tag and namespace model covering the listed use cases.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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