SREcon25 Americas

Dinesh Gurumurthy, Datadog Inc., and Laurent Querel, F5


The OpenTelemetry community has introduced Semantic Conventions - a defined schema that brings consistent meaning to telemetry data, defining everything from span names and metric instruments to attribute types and valid values. Semantic Conventions standardize naming across your codebase, libraries, and platforms, ensuring smooth data flow and better insights. With these benefits come drawbacks - namely that Semantic Conventions can and will change. Join us to learn how Datadog was impacted when changes to HTTP and Deployment Semantic Conventions caused disruptions for our clients. To fix these problems, Datadog came together with the community to develop the Schema Processor - a solution built to handle these changes without painful outages.


https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon25americas/presentation/gurumurthy