The biggest bikeshed in OpenTelemetry is coming together. The first layer of paint is dry.
Version 1.23 says “This release marks the first where the core of HTTP semantic conventions have stabilized.”
More details: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2023/http-conventions-declared-stable/
This is good news for the stability of all the SDKs that include these field names.
For everyone who is already using OpenTelemetry, every change in here raises migration questions. When do we update to the new standards? How does this affect our existing data, graphs, and alerts?
If you have opinions or stories about this, email misso11y@honeycomb.io so we can learn from your experience and share any accumulated wisdom here later.
