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otel is working on their events spec https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/issues/1688 https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/issues/1688
by blinded 3y ago
otel is working on their events spec https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/issues/1688 https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/issues/1688
- phillipcarter 3y agoHeh, this is an unfortunate consequence of naming. OTel Events are just OTel logs with a name. An OTel log is a log body with a trace ID, span ID, severity, etc. But that's also an event as per the author's definition. In OTel, a span is just a structured log, which is also an event (as per the author's definition of event). So is a Span Event, which is a log-like entity that you can produce in the context of a span. And OTel metrics produce what are called "metric events", which are also events. IMO it's one of those things that's horribly confusing until one day it's not, and then everything starts looking like how the author described.