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Stabilize the process namespaceΒ #3041
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area:process
The System Semantic Conventions Working Group works towards stabilising the process namespace. The remaining work is reflected within the respective board view: System Semantic Convention Working Group (view)
This issue will serve as a place to gather any final working items and a place to discuss any final issues you may have before stabilization occurs.
Remaining items:
- Process semconv: define common attributes and revisit requirement levelsΒ #864
- Design a
process.statusmetricΒ #1181 - Change
process.open_file_descriptorsΒ #1798
FYI @open-telemetry/semconv-system-approvers @open-telemetry/specs-semconv-approvers @open-telemetry/specs-semconv-maintainers
Reacted by Roger Coll, Pablo Baeyens, Braydon Kains, Joao Grassi and Bernhard FlΓΌhmann
Reacted by Joao Grassi and Roger Coll
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osullivandonal commentedon Jan 29, 2026
At present the
System Semconv stability WG(discussed at 29-01-2026 meeting.) is happy to go fromdevelopmenttorelease_candidate, with the exception that two outstanding issues listed above are completed:process.statusmetricΒ #1181ChrsMark commentedon Feb 10, 2026
Given that #1181 is actually an enhancement I would be fine adding it later, whenever it's ready.
With the completion of #864 we should be good to proceed with the promotion of
process.*torelease_candidate(hopefully by KubeConEU [26']).@open-telemetry/semconv-system-approvers WDYT? Would this expectation be realistic?
mx-psi commentedon Feb 10, 2026
I think that's realistic, I'd say we should spend next meeting solely on #864
ChrsMark commentedon Feb 12, 2026
We discussed that with the
System SemConv SIG (Thursday Feb 12th)and it seems that we should revisit the Process Entity attributes in general before moving on with the promotion to therelease_candidate. This will cover #864.Also we should verify the metric's attributes and their requirement level as #3107 tried to do.
The above are the major 2 leftovers for the
process.*namespace.rogercoll commentedon May 29, 2026
Reopening:
Generate and upgrade to `semconv/v1.42.0` (#8484)
Generate and upgrade to `semconv/v1.42.0` (open-telemetry#8484)
Generate and upgrade to semconv/v1.43.0 (#8628)
osullivandonal commentedon Aug 27, 2026
Can we reopen this as process namespace has only gone release candidate cc @ChrsMark , @rogercoll