Semantic Conventions for Database Calls and Systems

Status: Experimental

This document defines semantic conventions for database client spans as well as database metrics and logs.

Semantic conventions for database operations are defined for the following signals:

• DB Spans: Semantic Conventions for database client spans.
• DB Metrics: Semantic Conventions for database operation metrics.

Technology specific semantic conventions are defined for the following databases:

• AWS DynamoDB: Semantic Conventions for AWS DynamoDB.
• Cassandra: Semantic Conventions for Cassandra.
• Cosmos DB: Semantic Conventions for Microsoft Cosmos DB.
• CouchDB: Semantic Conventions for CouchDB.
• Elasticsearch: Semantic Conventions for Elasticsearch.
• GraphQL: Semantic Conventions for GraphQL Server.
• HBase: Semantic Conventions for HBase.
• MongoDB: Semantic Conventions for MongoDB.
• MSSQL: Semantic Conventions for MSSQL.
• Redis: Semantic Conventions for Redis.
• SQL: Semantic Conventions for SQL databases.