OpenTelemetry - CNCF/opentelemetry-specification: Release v1.16.0

Name: opentelemetry-specification

Owner: OpenTelemetry - CNCF

Release: Release v1.16.0

Released: 2022-12-08

License: Apache-2.0

Release Assets:

v1.16.0 (2022-12-08)

Context

  • No changes.

Traces

  • No changes.

Metrics

  • Define Experimental MetricProducer as a third-party provider of metric data to MetricReaders. (#2951)
  • Add OTLP exporter temporality preference named "LowMemory" which configures Synchronous Counter and Histogram instruments to use Delta aggregation temporality, which allows them to shed memory following a cardinality explosion, thus use less memory. (#2961)

Logs

  • Clarification on what an Event is, and what the event.domain and event.name attributes represent (#2848)
  • Move event.domain from InstrumentationScope attributes to LogRecord attributes. (#2940)
  • Split out Event API from Log API (#2941)
  • Clarify data modification in LogRecordProcessor. (#2969)
  • Make sure it is very clear we are not building a Logging API. (#2966)

Resource

  • Extend Cloud Platform Enum with OpenShift entry for all supported cloud providers. (#2985)

Semantic Conventions

  • Add process.runtime.jvm.gc.duration metric to semantic conventions. (#2903)
  • Make http.status_code metric attribute an int. (#2943)
  • Add IBM Cloud as a cloud provider. (#2965)
  • Add semantic conventions for Feature Flags (#2529)
  • Rename rpc.request.metadata.<key> and rpc.response.metadata.<key> to rpc.grpc.request.metadata.<key> and rpc.grpc.response.metadata.<key> (#2981)
  • List the machine-id as potential source for a unique host.id (#2978)
  • Add messaging.kafka.message.offset attribute. (#2982)
  • Update hardware metrics to use direction as per general semantic conventions (#2942)

Compatibility

  • Add OpenCensus metric bridge specification. (#2979)

OpenTelemetry Protocol

  • No changes.

SDK Configuration

  • Specify handling of invalid numeric environment variables (#2963)

Telemetry Schemas

  • No changes.

Common

  • No changes.

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/compare/v1.15.0...v1.16.0

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