From 79e4e031d53d749efc0b95e322dfdca2266fa918 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Flanders Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 22:15:52 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add distribution to glossary.md (#3667) Co-authored-by: Phillip Carter --- content/en/docs/concepts/glossary.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/en/docs/concepts/glossary.md b/content/en/docs/concepts/glossary.md index 8d00ac455cfe..43ecaf5f1bd2 100644 --- a/content/en/docs/concepts/glossary.md +++ b/content/en/docs/concepts/glossary.md @@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ transverses process, network and security boundaries. More on Distributed Tracing [here][distributed tracing]. +### **Distribution** + +A distribution is a wrapper around an upstream OpenTelemetry repository with +some customizations. See [more][distribution]. + ### **Event** Something that happened where representation depends on the @@ -338,6 +343,7 @@ on web pages when requested. See [more][zpages]. [context propagation]: /docs/specs/otel/overview#context-propagation [dag]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph [distributed tracing]: /docs/concepts/signals/traces/ +[distribution]: /docs/concepts/distributions/ [field]: /docs/specs/otel/logs/data-model#field-kinds [http]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol [json]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON