Semantic Conventions

OpenTelemetry defines Semantic Conventions, sometimes called Semantic attributes, that specify common names for different kinds of operations and data. The benefit of using Semantic conventions is in following a common naming scheme that can be standardized across a codebase, libraries, and platforms.

Semantic conventions are available for traces, metrics, logs, and resources:

• Trace semantic conventions
• Metric semantic conventions
• Log semantic conventions
• Resource semantic conventions