Entities semantic conventions: host #1752
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Entities SIG has reached the point when we need to start defining the semantic conventions for entities. Given that the tooling isn't ready for that, we could start the discussion in the issues. This one is intended to define attributes for the host entity.
The most important goal is to come up with a combination of the identifying attributes that must be sufficient to uniquely identify a host within the parent entity.
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Definition: A host is defined as a computing instance. For example, physical servers, virtual machines, switches or disk array.
Parent entity: data center (?)
Identifying attributes:
Non-identifying attributes:
All other attributes that already defined in https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/blob/8d9d4a1ce84b060e4d13b5f44b3495648767deb5/docs/attributes-registry/host.md
Notes:
[1] The current definition of host.id attribute prioritizes the value assigned by a cloud provide to a corresponding VM, if applicable. However, this introduces the problem of sharing one attribute by different entities (a host and a cloud VM). This problem has to be resolved before we can define conventions for the host entity type. We might need to change the recommendation for the value source and keep host.id only to the value taken from the machine-id.
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