Rename transaction

[baudouxbenjamin]

Hello,

We're using elastic on Android and for now every transactions are under something like GET, POST, etc.
I'd like to rename my transactions to GET my-service.be/data for example to make it easier to find.

Is it possible? If not, is it planned in a future release?

Thanks!

[breedx-splk]

Hi @baudouxbenjamin . The names of the spans generated by this instrumentation should comply with the OpenTelemetry HTTP semantic conventions.

If you check that link, you'll see that the guidance for client http spans is:

HTTP client spans have no http.route attribute since client-side instrumentation is not generally aware of the “route”, and therefore HTTP client span names SHOULD be {method}.

So I don't think we have any real intention to change this. You can always put manual instrumentation around these call sites, if you'd like to get more details in the name.

[LikeTheSalad]

I agree we should stick to the semconv, however, it does mention that we could add the HTTP route (if we knew what it was) though we don't know, so it makes sense we don't do it and I don't think OTel Android should try to make any "smart" decisions on what the HTTP route should look like.

Still, I think we could at least provide some APIs to allow users to add the route themselves, maybe in a similar fashion to what someone's suggested doing for screen names.

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[LikeTheSalad]

There has been some progress around this issue in the Java SIG and also here. I'm planning to add a config option for it soon.