OpenTelemetry App

The primary role that the OpenTelemetry app plays is in making raw OTel span data more useful for use cases such as trace search and service monitoring.

How the OpenTelemetry app makes your trace data available for use in Observe

The OpenTelemetry app creates a Span dataset that can be used by the Trace Explorer. Here’s how the Span dataset is populated from OTel data:

This Trace Explorer feature…	Is powered by this Span dataset field from the OTel app…	Which is auto-populated from this OTel span data field:
Service facet filter & group by Service on charts	service_name	resource_attributes.service.name
Operation facet filter & group by Operation on charts	span_name	span.name
Environment facet filter & group by Environment on charts	environment	resource_attributes.deployment.environment
Version facet filter & group by Version on charts	version	resource_attributes.service.version
Error chart, response status facet filter & group by response status on charts	response_status	span.status.code
Status code facet filter & group by status code on charts	status_code	attributes.http.status_code, attributes.rpc.status_code, attributes.grpc.status_code, or attributes.rpc.grpc.status_code
Status message facet filter	status_message	span.status.message
Duration chart	duration	span.start_time_unix_nano and span.end_time_unix_nano