Associate Infrastructure Metrics with Services

Infrastructure metrics gathered from Kubernetes (in your Kubernetes Explorer/Prometheus Metrics dataset) will automatically be associated with your services in Service Explorer provided that metrics the have the following labels:

Label	Required
service_name	Yes
service_namespace	No
deployment_environment	No

These labels must all match the labels used in your application instrumentation for the same service.

The observe-agent installed via the Observe Agent Helm Chart will automatically add these labels to infrastructure metrics pertaining to Kubernetes pods that are annotated according to the OTel Semantic Conventions. The supported pod annotations are:

Annotation Name	Resulting Label
resource.opentelemetry.io/service.name	service_name
resource.opentelemetry.io/service.namespace	service_namespace
resource.opentelemetry.io/deployment.environment	deployment_environment

The observe-agent will also use the app.kubernetes.io/name pod label to determine the service_name if the annotation is not present. This feature requires the observe-agent helm chart version 0.52.0 or later.