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+title: Simple Schema for Observability
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+# Simple Schema for Observability
+Introduced 2.6
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+OpenSearch 2.6 introduced a standardization for conforming to a common and unified observability schema: Simple Schema for Observability (SSO). [Observability]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/observing-your-data/index/) is a collection of plugins and applications that let you visualize data-driven events by using Piped Processing Language (PPL) to explore and query data stored in OpenSearch.
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+With the schema in place, Observability tools can ingest, automatically extract, and aggregate data and create custom dashboards, making it easier to understand the system at a higher level.
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+SSO is inspired by both [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/) and the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) and uses Amazon Elastic Container Service ([Amazon ECS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs_cwe_events.html)) event logs and OpenTelemetry metadata.
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+Alerts will be supported in a future release.
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+## Use cases
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+Use cases for SSO include:
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+* Ingesting observability data from different data types.
+* Moving from proprietary configurations that are non-transferable to a consolidated, sharable observability solution that allows users to ingest and display an analysis of any type of telemetry data from any type of provider.
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+Data Prepper conforms to the SSO schema for metrics and will gradually support traces and logs.
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+Data Prepper's [trace mapping]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/data-prepper/common-use-cases/trace-analytics/) currently provides `service-map` data in a different way than SSO traces. To make the trace mapping compatible with Observability, it will be integrated with the SSO traces schema and will introduce `service-map` as an enriched field.
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+## Traces and metrics
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+Schema definitions for traces and metrics are defined and supported by the Observability plugin.
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+These schema definitions include:
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+- The index structure (mapping).
+- The [index naming conventions](https://github.com/opensearch-project/observability/issues/1405).
+- A JSON schema for enforcement and validation of the structure.
+- The [integration](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/issues/3412) feature for adding preconfigured dashboards and assets.