Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Update use of metadata in glossary.md #3646

Merged
merged 20 commits into from
Dec 16, 2023
Merged

Update use of metadata in glossary.md #3646

Changes from 4 commits
Commits
Show all changes
20 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
3a7c27c
Update glossary.md
flands Dec 5, 2023
d512828
Update glossary.md
flands Dec 5, 2023
5784df4
Update glossary.md
flands Dec 5, 2023
cfbcf74
Update glossary.md
flands Dec 5, 2023
6680211
Update content/en/docs/concepts/glossary.md
flands Dec 7, 2023
95782b2
Update glossary.md
flands Dec 10, 2023
c13e330
Merge branch 'main' into flands-glossary-patch-1
flands Dec 11, 2023
564c60b
Update glossary.md
flands Dec 12, 2023
4e522fb
Update glossary.md
flands Dec 12, 2023
1521cd0
Merge branch 'main' into flands-glossary-patch-1
flands Dec 12, 2023
425ae9c
Update glossary.md
flands Dec 12, 2023
5ddd972
Update glossary.md
flands Dec 12, 2023
091dfca
Merge branch 'main' into flands-glossary-patch-1
flands Dec 12, 2023
c502569
Update glossary.md
flands Dec 12, 2023
f18d18e
Update glossary.md
flands Dec 13, 2023
ec4e645
Update glossary.md
flands Dec 13, 2023
ca3330f
Update glossary.md
flands Dec 13, 2023
5f80100
Update glossary.md
flands Dec 13, 2023
099e9b4
Merge branch 'main' into flands-glossary-patch-1
cartermp Dec 16, 2023
633b5c4
fix build
cartermp Dec 16, 2023
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
23 changes: 11 additions & 12 deletions content/en/docs/concepts/glossary.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -36,9 +36,8 @@ alerting and tooling for finding the root cause.

### **Attribute**

A key-value pair. Used across telemetry signals - e.g. in [`Traces`](#trace) to
attach data to a [`Span`](#span), or in [`Metrics`](#metric). See [attribute
spec][attribute].
See [`Metadata`](#metadata). Used across [`Signals`](#signal) and [`Resources`]
flands marked this conversation as resolved.
Show resolved Hide resolved
(#resource). See [attribute spec][attribute].

### **Automatic Instrumentation**

Expand All @@ -48,7 +47,7 @@ examples include bytecode injection or monkey patching.

### **Baggage**

A mechanism for propagating name/value pairs to help establish a causal
A mechanism for propagating [`Metadata`](#metadata) to help establish a causal
relationship between events and services. See [baggage spec][baggage].

### **Client Library**
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -93,7 +92,7 @@ See [`Signal`](#signal)

### **Dimension**

See [`Label`](#label).
Term used specifically for [`Metrics`](#metric). See [`Attribute`](#attribute).

### **Distributed Tracing**

Expand All @@ -118,9 +117,8 @@ pull-based.

### **Field**

Name/value pairs added to [`Log Records`](#log-record) (similar to
[`Attributes`](#attribute) for [`Spans`](#span) and [`Labels`](#label) for
[`Metrics`](#metric)). See [field spec][field].
Term used specifically for [`Log Records`](#log-record). See
flands marked this conversation as resolved.
Show resolved Hide resolved
[`Attribute`](#attribute) and the [field spec][field].
flands marked this conversation as resolved.
Show resolved Hide resolved

### **gRPC**

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -152,7 +150,7 @@ Short for [JavaScript Object Notation][json].

### **Label**

See [Attribute](#attribute).
Term used specifically for [`Metrics`](#metric). See [`Attribute`](#attribute).
flands marked this conversation as resolved.
Show resolved Hide resolved

### **Language**

Expand All @@ -178,9 +176,10 @@ describes what happened, where it happened, etc. See [more][log record].

### **Metadata**

A name/value pair added to telemetry data. OpenTelemetry calls this
[`Attributes`](#attribute) on [`Spans`](#span), [`Labels`](#label) on
[`Metrics`](#metric) and [`Fields`](#field) on [`Logs`](#log).
A name/value pair (e.g. `foo="bar"`) added to telemetry data. OpenTelemetry
generally calls this [`Attributes`](#attribute) though [`Metrics`](#metric) have
[`Dimensions`](#dimension) and [`Labels`](#label) while [`Logs`](#log) have
[`Fields`](#field).
flands marked this conversation as resolved.
Show resolved Hide resolved

### **Metric**

Expand Down
Loading