Semantic Conventions

Spring Boot applications instrumented with the Micrometer APIs can export telemetry data adopting specific semantic conventions. Semantic conventions define a standard set of attributes and naming rules for observations, ensuring consistency across different observability backends.

The semantic conventions modules build on the Micrometer APIs and work with any OpenTelemetry setup: the Arconia OpenTelemetry Spring Boot Starter as well as the Spring Boot OpenTelemetry partial support (spring-boot-starter-opentelemetry). The resource attributes that a module contributes need the Arconia OpenTelemetry Spring Boot Starter.

Arconia provides support for the following semantic conventions: