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Should db.system be db.system.name? #1581

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jack-berg opened this issue Nov 14, 2024 · 6 comments · May be fixed by #1613
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Should db.system be db.system.name? #1581

jack-berg opened this issue Nov 14, 2024 · 6 comments · May be fixed by #1613
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Is your change request related to a problem? Please describe.

As we approach stability, I wanted to throw out a question of whether we should rename db.system to db.system.name in order to preserve the ability to use db.system as a namespace.

I don't see any need to include other db.system.* attributes on metrics / spans. But supposing semantic conventions expand to database servers (e.g. resource conventions to represent a database server), its possible we might want to include other attributes along the lines of db.system.version.

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Consider renaming db.system to db.system.name.

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@jack-berg jack-berg added enhancement New feature or request triage:needs-triage labels Nov 14, 2024
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I have an arbitrary (and optional) rule of thumb for attribute names to follow {domain}.{thing}.{a property of the thing} pattern.

The db.system.name follows this pattern and if we defined it from the scratch, I'd prefer to add .name.

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Agree that adding .name is a better option

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I can open a PR. Can a maintainer assign it to me?

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trask commented Nov 22, 2024 •
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@lmolkova and I added this to Monday's semconv meeting to get more feedback since it would affect several semantic conventions

  • db.system
  • messaging.system
  • rpc.system
  • gen_ai.system
  • feature_flag.system

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dyladan commented Nov 25, 2024

Discussed (very) briefly with feature flag sig and nobody had an objection

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dyladan commented Nov 25, 2024

I think this change might be a good way to future proof against entities in the future. Assuming we will want to use the same dictionary of attributes for entities, we might have things like system version, region, etc for entities in the future.

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