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SemConv guidance: document how to define metrics #1854

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lmolkova opened this issue Jan 31, 2025 · 1 comment

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lmolkova commented Jan 31, 2025

See https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/blob/main/docs/general/how-to-define-semantic-conventions.md#defining-metrics

Some areas to cover:

granularity / when to define a new metric vs reuse the same metric definition across multiple operations
cardinality
duration histogram covers request rate/error rate
errors: link to recording errors

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lmolkova commented Feb 5, 2025

Related: #1876

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