opensearch-project / opensearch-project/data-prepper
Allow custom suffix for trace ingestion index alias
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently our trace ingestion index alias are reserved to be
spans: otel-v1-apm-span
service-map: otel-v1-service-map
There are user requests to allow custom suffix appended to the above
Describe the solution you'd like
add an index alias suffix setting for trace analytics index.
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Research direction
Start by locating the trace analytics index-alias configuration and the code that creates the spans and service-map aliases. Check existing tests around trace ingestion and alias naming. Done means a configurable suffix is accepted and consistently appended to both aliases, with tests covering the default and custom cases.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- observability
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100