Entities

Overview

Entity represents an object of interest associated with produced telemetry: traces, metrics, logs, profiles etc.

Entities can be instantiated through two complementary approaches:

1. Pull-based Model: Entities discover themselves from the current environment by examining the runtime context, system properties, metadata services, and other available sources of entity information.

2. Push-based Model: Entities are explicitly provided from external sources, typically through environment variables or configuration. This approach allows entity information to be propagated across process boundaries. See Entity Propagation for more details.

Specifications

• Data Model
• Entity Propagation - Describes the push-based model for entity instantiation