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OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions

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Set of standard attribute names published by the OpenTelemetry project. Do not require installing the OpenTelemetry SDK — they are purely naming conventions (e.g. messaging.destination.name for a queue name, because OTel models background jobs as a messaging protocol alongside Kafka and RabbitMQ). Adopting them in structured logs makes data portable between observability vendors and aligns teams on shared attribute names. Callaghan notes the Ruby OTel library is not yet mature enough for production, but the conventions can be adopted independently.

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OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions concept
Adopts OTel semantic conventions for attribute names over structured logs.
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OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions concept
Recommends adopting OTel semantic conventions even without the SDK.
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Semantic conventions are a deliverable of the OpenTelemetry standards project.
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OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions concept
Talk shows patching semantic_logger's subscriber and event formatter to emit OpenTelemetry attribute names.

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