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Some of our instrumented libraries like database/sql and kafka currently rely on unstable semantic conventions. These should be put behind a feature gate that users have to explicitly enable in the agent for automatic instrumentation to pick up these libraries.
The reasoning for this is that users who expect automatic instrumentation may not be aware that the agent is using an experimental set of conventions for their library (due to the low investment of enabling automatic instrumentation).
So, when the conventions change, the users will be surprised by changes in their automatic instrumentation output. Putting this behind a feature gate draws their attention to the semantic conventions and makes them aware that this is likely to change.
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Some of our instrumented libraries like
database/sql
andkafka
currently rely on unstable semantic conventions. These should be put behind a feature gate that users have to explicitly enable in the agent for automatic instrumentation to pick up these libraries.The reasoning for this is that users who expect automatic instrumentation may not be aware that the agent is using an experimental set of conventions for their library (due to the low investment of enabling automatic instrumentation).
So, when the conventions change, the users will be surprised by changes in their automatic instrumentation output. Putting this behind a feature gate draws their attention to the semantic conventions and makes them aware that this is likely to change.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: