OpenTelemetry - CNCF/opentelemetry-specification: Release v1.6.0

Name: opentelemetry-specification

Owner: OpenTelemetry - CNCF

Release: Release v1.6.0

Released: 2021-08-07

License: Apache-2.0

Release Assets:

v1.6.0 (2021-08-06)

Users SHOULD NOT use this release anymore, but refer to the 1.6.1 release, which contains a semantic conventions bug fix.

Context

  • No changes.

Traces

  • Add generalized attribute count and attribute value length limits and relevant environment variables. (#1130)
  • Adding environment variables for event and link attribute limits. (#1751)
  • Adding SDK configuration for Jaeger remote sampler (#1791)

Metrics

  • Metrics API specification Feature-freeze. (#1833)
  • Remove MetricProcessor from the SDK spec (for now) (#1840)

Logs

  • No changes.

Resource

  • No changes.

Semantic Conventions

  • Add mobile-related network state: net.host.connection.type, net.host.connection.subtype & net.host.carrier.* #1647
  • Adding alibaba cloud as a cloud provider. (#1831)

Compatibility

  • No changes.

OpenTelemetry Protocol

  • Allow for OTLP/gRPC exporters to handle endpoint configuration without a scheme while still requiring them to support an endpoint configuration that includes a scheme of http or https. Reintroduce the insecure configuration option for OTLP/gRPC exporters. (#1729)
  • Adding requirement to implement at least one of two transports: grpc or http/protobuf. (#1790)

SDK Configuration

  • No changes.

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