Operating System

Status: Experimental

type: os

Description: The operating system (OS) on which the process represented by this resource is running.

In case of virtualized environments, this is the operating system as it is observed by the process, i.e., the virtualized guest rather than the underlying host.

Attribute	Type	Description	Examples	Requirement Level	Stability
os.type	string	The operating system type.	windows; linux; darwin	Required
os.build_id	string	Unique identifier for a particular build or compilation of the operating system.	TQ3C.230805.001.B2; 20E247; 22621	Recommended
os.description	string	Human readable (not intended to be parsed) OS version information, like e.g. reported by ver or lsb_release -a commands.	Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.778]; Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS	Recommended
os.name	string	Human readable operating system name.	iOS; Android; Ubuntu	Recommended
os.version	string	The version string of the operating system as defined in Version Attributes.	14.2.1; 18.04.1	Recommended

os.type has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.

Value	Description	Stability
aix	AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive)
darwin	Apple Darwin
dragonflybsd	DragonFly BSD
freebsd	FreeBSD
hpux	HP-UX (Hewlett Packard Unix)
linux	Linux
netbsd	NetBSD
openbsd	OpenBSD
solaris	SunOS, Oracle Solaris
windows	Microsoft Windows
z_os	IBM z/OS