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Context

Traces

Metrics

  • Add optional min / max fields to histogram data model. (#1915)

Logs

Resource

Semantic Conventions

Compatibility

OpenTelemetry Protocol

SDK Configuration

v1.7.0 (2021-09-30)

Context

  • No changes.

Traces

  • Prefer global user defined limits over model-sepcific default values. (#1893)
  • Generalize the "message" event to apply to all RPC systems not just gRPC (#1914)

Metrics

Logs

  • No changes.

Resource

  • Exempt Resource from attribute limits. (#1892)

Semantic Conventions

  • BREAKING: Change enum member IDs to lowercase without spaces, not starting with numbers. Change values of net.host.connection.subtype to match. (#1863)
  • Lambda instrumentations should check if X-Ray parent context is valid (#1867)
  • Update YAML definitions for events (#1843):
    • Mark exception as semconv type "event".
    • Add YAML definitions for grpc events.
  • Add messaging.consumer_id to differentiate between message consumers. (#1810)
  • Clarifications for http.client_ip and http.host. (#1890)
  • Add HTTP request and response headers semantic conventions. (#1898)

Compatibility

  • No changes.

OpenTelemetry Protocol

  • Add environment variables for configuring the OTLP exporter protocol (grpc, http/protobuf, http/json) (#1880)
  • Specify the behavior of the OTLP endpoint variables for OTLP/HTTP more strictly (#1975).
  • Allow implementations to use their own default for OTLP compression, with none denotating no compression (#1923)
  • Clarify OTLP server components MUST support none/gzip compression (#1955)
  • Change OTLP/HTTP port from 4317 to 4318 (#1970)

SDK Configuration

  • Change default value for OTEL_EXPORTER_JAEGER_AGENT_PORT to 6831. (#1812)
  • See also the changes for OTLP configuration listed under "OpenTelemetry Protocol" above.

v1.6.0 (2021-08-06)

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.

v1.5.0 (2021-07-08)

Context

  • No changes.

Traces

  • Adding environment variables for event and link attribute limits. (#1751)
  • Clarify some details about span kind and the meanings of the values. (#1738)
  • Clarify meaning of the Certificate File option. (#1803)
  • Adding environment variables for event and link attribute limits. (#1751)

Metrics

  • Clarify the limit on the instrument unit. (#1762)

Logs

  • Declare OTLP Logs Beta. (#1741)

Resource

  • No changes.

Semantic Conventions

  • Clean up FaaS semantic conventions, add aws.lambda.invoked_arn. (#1781)
  • Remove rpc.jsonrpc.method, clarify that rpc.method should be used instead. (#1748)

Compatibility

  • No changes.

OpenTelemetry Protocol

  • No changes.

SDK Configuration

  • Allow selecting multiple exporters via OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER and OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER by using a comma-separated list. (#1758)

v1.4.0 (2021-06-07)

Context

  • No changes.

Traces

  • Add schema_url support to Tracer. (#1666)
  • Add Dropped Links Count to non-otlp exporters section (#1697)
  • Add note about reporting dropped counts for attributes, events, links. (#1699)

Metrics

Logs

  • No changes.

Resource

  • Add schema_url support to Resource. (#1692)
  • Clarify result of Resource merging and ResourceDetector aggregation in case of error. (#1726)

Semantic Conventions

  • Add JSON RPC specific conventions (#1643).
  • Add Memcached to Database specific conventions (#1689).
  • Add semantic convention attributes for the host device and added OS name and version (#1596).
  • Add CockroachDB to Database specific conventions (#1725).

Compatibility

  • No changes.

OpenTelemetry Protocol

  • No changes.

SDK Configuration

  • Add OTEL_SERVICE_NAME environment variable. (#1677)

v1.3.0 (2021-05-05)

Context

  • No changes.

Traces

  • Get Tracer should use an empty string if the specified name is null. (#1654)
  • Clarify how to record dropped attribute count in non-OTLP formats. (#1662)

Metrics

  • Expand description of Event Model and Instruments. (#1614)
  • Flesh out metric identity and single-write principle. (#1574)
  • Expand Sum metric description in the data model and delta-to-cumulative handling. (#1618)
  • Remove the "Func" name, use "Asynchronous" and "Observable". (#1645)
  • Add details to UpDownCounter API. (#1665)
  • Add details to Histogram API. (#1657)

Logs

  • Clarify "key/value pair list" vs "map" in Log Data Model. (#1604)

Semantic Conventions

  • Fix the inconsistent formatting of semantic convention enums. (#1598)
  • Add details for filling resource for AWS Lambda. (#1610)
  • Add already specified messaging.rabbitmq.routing_key span attribute key to the respective YAML file. (#1651)
  • Clarify usage of "otel." attribute namespace. (#1640)
  • Add possibility to disable db.statement via instrumentation configuration. (#1659)

Compatibility

  • No changes.

OpenTelemetry Protocol

  • Fix incorrect table of transient errors. (#1642)
  • Clarify that 64 bit integer numbers are decimal strings in OTLP/JSON. (#1637)

SDK Configuration

  • Add OTEL_EXPORTER_JAEGER_TIMEOUT environment variable. (#1612)
  • Add OTEL_EXPORTER_ZIPKIN_TIMEOUT environment variable. (#1636)

v1.2.0 (2021-04-14)

Context

  • Clarify composite TextMapPropagator method required and optional arguments. (#1541)
  • Clarify B3 requirements and configuration. (#1570)

Traces

  • Add ForceFlush to Span Exporter interface (#1467)
  • Clarify the description for the TraceIdRatioBased sampler needs to include the sampler's sampling ratio. (#1536)
  • Define the fallback tracer name for invalid values. (#1534)
  • Clarify non-blocking requirement from span API End. (#1555)
  • Remove the Included Propagators section from trace API specification that was a duplicate of the Propagators Distribution of the context specification. (#1556)
  • Remove the Baggage API propagator notes that conflict with the API Propagators Operations section and fix #1526. (#1575)

Metrics

  • Adds new metric data model specification (#1512)

Semantic Conventions

  • Add semantic conventions for AWS SDK operations and DynamoDB (#1422)
  • Add details for filling semantic conventions for AWS Lambda (#1442)
  • Update semantic conventions to distinguish between int and double (#1550)
  • Add semantic convention for AWS ECS task revision (#1581)

Compatibility

  • Add initial OpenTracing compatibility section. (#1101)

v1.1.0 (2021-03-11)

Traces

  • Implementations can ignore links with invalid SpanContext(#1492)
  • Add none as a possible value for OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER to disable export (#1439)
  • Add ForceFlush to SDK's TracerProvider (#1452)

Metrics

  • Add none as a possible value for OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER to disable export (#1439)

Logs

Semantic Conventions

  • Add elasticsearch to db.system semantic conventions (#1463)
  • Add arch to host semantic conventions (#1483)
  • Add runtime to container semantic conventions (#1482)
  • Rename gcp_gke to gcp_kubernetes_engine to have consistency with other Google products under cloud.infrastructure_service (#1496)
  • http.url MUST NOT contain credentials (#1502)
  • Add aws.eks.cluster.arn to EKS specific semantic conventions (#1484)
  • Rename zone to availability_zone in cloud semantic conventions (#1495)
  • Rename cloud.infrastructure_service to cloud.platform (#1530)
  • Add section describing that libraries and the collector should autogenerate the semantic convention keys. (#1515)

v1.0.1 (2021-02-11)

  • Fix rebase issue for span limit default values (#1429)

v1.0.0 (2021-02-10)

New:

  • Add cloud.infrastructure_service resource attribute (#1112)
  • Add SpanLimits as a configuration for the TracerProvider(#1416)

Updates:

  • Add http.server.active_requests to count in-flight HTTP requests (#1378)
  • Update default limit for span attributes, events, links to 128(#1419)
  • Update OT Trace propagator environment variable to match latest name(#1406)
  • Remove Metrics SDK specification to avoid confusion, clarify that Metrics API specification is not recommended for client implementation (#1401)
  • Rename OTEL_TRACE_SAMPLER and OTEL_TRACE_SAMPLER_ARG env variables to OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER and OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER_ARG (#1382)
  • Mark some entries in compliance matrix as optional(#1359) SDKs are free to provide support at their discretion.
  • Rename signal-specific variables for OTLP_EXPORTER_* to OTLP_EXPORTER_TRACES_* and OTLP_EXPORTER_METRICS_*(#1362)
  • Versioning and stability guarantees for OpenTelemetry clients(#1291)
  • Additional Cassandra semantic attributes (#1217)
  • OTEL_EXPORTER environment variable replaced with OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER and OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER which each accept only a single value, not a list. (#1318)
  • process.runtime.description resource convention: Add java.vm.name (#1242)
  • Refine span name guideline for SQL database spans (#1219)
  • Add RPC semantic conventions for metrics (#1162)
  • Clarify Description usage on Status API (#1257)
  • Add/Update Status + error mapping for Jaeger & Zipkin Exporters (#1257)
  • Resource's service.name MUST have a default value, service.instance.id is not required. (#1269)
  • Add requirement that the SDK allow custom generation of Trace IDs and Span IDs (#1006)
  • Add default ratio when TraceIdRatioSampler is specified by environment variable but no ratio is. (#1322)
  • Require schemed endpoints for OTLP exporters (1234)
  • Resource SDK: Reverse (suggested) order of Resource.Merge parameters, remove special case for empty strings (#1345)
  • Resource attributes: lowerecased the allowed values of the aws.ecs.launchtype attribute (#1339)
  • Trace Exporters: Fix TODOs in Jaeger exporter spec (#1374)
  • Clarify that Jaeger/Zipkin exporters must rely on the default Resource to get service.name if none was specified. (#1386)
  • Modify OTLP/Zipkin Exporter format variables for 1.0 (allowing further specification post 1.0) (#1358)
  • Add k8s.node semantic conventions (#1390)
  • Clarify stability for both OTLP/HTTP and signals in OTLP. (#1400)

v0.7.0 (11-18-2020)

New:

  • Document service name mapping for Jaeger exporters (1222)
  • Change default OTLP port number (#1221)
  • Add performance benchmark specification (#748)
  • Enforce that the Baggage API must be fully functional, even without an installed SDK. (#1103)
  • Rename "Canonical status code" to "Status code" (#1081)
  • Add Metadata for Baggage entries, and clarify W3C Baggage Propagator implementation (#1066)
  • Change Status to be consistent with Link and Event (#1067)
  • Clarify env variables in otlp exporter (#975)
  • Add Prometheus exporter environment variables (#1021)
  • Default propagators in un-configured API must be no-op (#930)
  • Define resource mapping for Jaeger exporters (#891)
  • Add resource semantic conventions for operating systems (#693)
  • Add semantic convention for source code attributes (#901)
  • Add semantic conventions for outgoing Function as a Service (FaaS) invocations (#862)
  • Add resource semantic convention for deployment environment (#606)
  • Refine semantic conventions for messaging systems and add specific attributes for Kafka (#1027)
  • Clarification of the behavior of the Trace API, re: context propagation, in the absence of an installed SDK
  • Add API and semantic conventions for recording exceptions as Span Events (#697)
    • API was extended to allow adding arbitrary event attributes (#874)
    • exception.escaped semantic span event attribute was added (#784, #946)
  • Allow samplers to modify tracestate (#988)
  • Update the header name for otel baggage, and version date (#981)
  • Define PropagationOnly Span to simplify active Span logic in Context (#994)
  • Add limits to the number of attributes, events, and links in SDK Spans (#942)
  • Add Metric SDK specification (partial): covering terminology and Accumulator component (#626)
  • Clarify context interaction for trace module (#1063)
  • Add Shutdown function to *Provider SDK (#1074)
  • Add semantic conventions for system metrics (#937)
  • Add db.sql.table to semantic conventions, allow db.operation for SQL (#1141)
  • Add OTEL_TRACE_SAMPLER env variable definition (#1136)
  • Add guidelines for OpenMetrics interoperability (#1154)
  • Add OTEL_TRACE_SAMPLER_ARG env variable definition (#1202)

Updates:

  • Clarify null SHOULD NOT be allowed even in arrays (#1214)
  • Remove ordering SHOULD-requirement for attributes (#1212)
  • Make process.pid optional, split process.command_args from command_line (#1137)
  • Renamed CorrelationContext to Baggage: (#857)
  • Add semantic convention for NGINX custom HTTP 499 status code.
  • Adapt semantic conventions for the span name of messaging systems (#690)
  • Remove lazy Event and Link API from Span interface (#840)
    • SIGs are recommended to remove any existing implementation of the lazy APIs to avoid conflicts/breaking changes in case they will be reintroduced to the spec in future.
  • Provide clear definitions for readable and read/write span interfaces in the SDK (#669)
    • SpanProcessors must provide read/write access at least in OnStart.
  • Specify how Probability sampler is used with ParentOrElse sampler.
  • Clarify event timestamp origin and range (#839)
  • Clean up api-propagators.md, by extending documentation and removing redundant sections (#577)
  • Rename HTTPText propagator to TextMap (#793)
  • Rename ParentOrElse sampler to ParentBased and add multiple delegate samplers (#610)
  • Rename ProbabilitySampler to TraceIdRatioBasedSampler and add requirements (#611)
  • Version attributes no longer have a prefix such as semver: (#873)
  • Add semantic conventions for process runtime (#882, #1137)
  • Use hex encoding for trace id and span id fields in OTLP JSON encoding: (#911)
  • Explicitly specify the SpanContext APIs IsValid and IsRemote as required (#914)
  • A full Context is the only way to specify a parent of a Span. SpanContext or even Span are not allowed anymore. (#875)
  • Remove obsolete http.status_text from semantic conventions (#972)
  • Define null as an invalid value for attributes and declare attempts to set null as undefined behavior (#992)
  • SDK: Rename the Decision values for SamplingResults to DROP, RECORD_ONLY and RECORD_AND_SAMPLE for consistency (#938, #956)
  • Metrics API: Replace "Additive" with "Adding", "Non-Additive" with "Grouping" (#983
  • Move active span interaction in the Trace API to a separate class (#923)
  • Metrics SDK: Specify LastValue default aggregation for ValueObserver (#984
  • Metrics SDK: Specify TBD default aggregation for ValueRecorder (#984
  • Trace SDK: Sampler.ShouldSample gets parent Context instead of SpanContext (#881)
  • SDK: Specify known values, as well as basic error handling for OTEL_PROPAGATORS. (#962) (#995)
  • SDK: Specify when to generate new IDs with sampling (#1225)
  • Remove custom header name for Baggage, use official header (#993)
  • Trace API: Clarifications for Span.End, e.g. IsRecording becomes false after End (#1011)
  • Update semantic conventions for gRPC for new Span Status (#1156)

v0.6.0 (2020-07-01)

New:

  • Add span attribute to indicate cold starts of Function as a Service executions (#650)
  • Add conventions for naming of exporter packages (#629)
  • Add semantic conventions for container id (#673)
  • Add semantic conventions for HTTP content length (#641)
  • Add semantic conventions for process resource (#635)
  • Add peer.service to provide a user-configured name for a remote service (#652)

Updates:

  • Improve root Span description (#645)
  • Extend semantic conventions for RPC and allow non-gRPC calls (#604)
  • Revise and extend semantic conventions for databases (#575)
  • Clarify Tracer vs TracerProvider in tracing API and SDK spec. (#619) Most importantly:
    • Configuration should be stored not per Tracer but in the TracerProvider.
    • Active spans are not per Tracer.
  • Do not set any value in Context upon failed extraction (#671)
  • Clarify semantic conventions around span start and end time (#592)

v0.5.0 (06-02-2020)

  • Define Log Data Model.
  • Remove SpanId from Sampler input.
  • Clarify what it will mean for a vendor to "support OpenTelemetry".
  • Clarify Tracers should reference an InstrumentationLibrary rather than a Resource.
  • Replace ALWAYS_PARENT sampler with a composite ParentOrElse sampler.
  • Incorporate old content on metrics calling conventions, label sets.
  • Update api-metrics-user.md and api-metrics-meter.md with the latest metrics API.
  • Normalize Instrumentation term for instrumentations.
  • Change w3c correlation context to custom header.

v0.4.0 (2020-05-12)

  • OTEP-83 Introduce the notion of InstrumentationLibrary.
  • OTEP-88 Metrics API instrument foundation.
  • OTEP-91 Logs vocabulary.
  • OTEP-92 Logs Vision.
  • OTEP-90 Remove LabelSet from the metrics API.
  • OTEP-98 Explain the metric instruments.
  • OTEP-99 OTLP/HTTP: HTTP Transport Extension for OTLP.
  • Define handling of null and empty attribute values.
  • Rename Setter.put to Setter.set
  • Add glossary for typically misused terms.
  • Clarify that resources are immutable.
  • Clarify that SpanContext.IsRemote is false on remote children.
  • Move specifications into sub-directories per signal.
  • Remove references to obsolete peer.* attributes.
  • Span semantic conventions for for messaging systems.
  • Span semantic conventions for function as a service.
  • Remove the handling of retries from trace exporters.
  • Remove Metrics' default keys.
  • Add some clarifying language to the semantics of metric instrument naming.
  • Allow injectors and extractors to be separate interfaces.
  • Add an explanation on why Context Restore operation is needed.
  • Document special Zipkin conversion cases.

v0.3.0 (2020-02-21)

  • OTEP-0059 Add OTLP Trace Data Format specification.
  • OTEP-0066 Separate Layer for Context Propagation.
  • OTEP-0070 Rename metric instrument "Handles" to "Bound Instruments".
  • OTEP-0072 Metric Observer instrument specification (refinement).
  • OTEP-0080 Remove the Metric Gauge instrument, recommend use of other instruments.
  • Update 0003-measure-metric-type to match current Specification.
  • Update 0009-metric-handles to match current Specification.
  • Clarify named tracers and meters.
  • Remove SamplingHint from the Sampling OTEP (OTEP-0006).
  • Remove component attribute.
  • Allow non-string Resource label values.
  • Allow array values for attributes.
  • Add service version to Resource attributes.
  • Add general, general identity, network and VM image attribute conventions.
  • Add a section on transformation to Zipkin Spans.
  • Add a section on SDK default configuration.
  • Enhance semantic conventions for HTTP/RPC.
  • Provide guidelines for low-cardinality span names.
  • SDK Tracer: Replace TracerFactory with TracerProvider.
  • Update Resource to be in the SDK.

v0.2.0 (2019-10-22)

  • OTEP-0001 Added Auto-Instrumentation.
  • OTEP-0002: Removed SpanData interface in favor of Span Start and End options.
  • OTEP-0003 Consolidatesd pre-aggregated and raw metrics APIs.
  • OTEP-0008 Added Metrics Observers API.
  • OTEP-0009 Added Metrics Handle API.
  • OTEP-0010 Rename "Cumulative" to "Counter" in the Metrics API.
  • OTEP-006 Moved sampling from the API tp the SDK.
  • OTEP-0007 Moved support for out-of-band telemetry from the API to the SDK.
  • OTEP-0016 Added named providers for Tracers and Meters.
  • Added design goals and requirements for a telemetry data exchange protocol.
  • Added a Span Processor interface for intercepting span start and end invocations.
  • Added a Span Exporter interface for processing batches of spans.
  • Replaced DistributedContext.GetIterator with GetEntries.
  • Added clarifications and adjustments to improve cross-language applicability.
  • Added a specification for SDK configuration.

v0.1.0 (2019-06-21)

  • Added API proposal for the converged OpenTracing/OpenCensus project is complete.