Semantic conventions

Use this section when you want to instrument code with the attribute keys and metric definitions generated from the OpenTelemetry semantic conventions.

Start here

• Add generated attribute keys to spans, metrics, or logs: Use semantic attributes
• Create metric instruments with the name, unit, and description defined by a semantic convention: Create metrics from semantic metric specs

Related material

• To understand the stable and experimental module split, see Semantic conventions and stability.
• To look up artifacts, packages, and generated types, see the Semantic conventions reference.
• To verify a metric implementation against a generated spec, see Test metrics against semantic conventions.