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Decide if service and service.instance are different entities #2880

@jsuereth

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@jsuereth

Right now, we have two stabilized "resource"s in semantic conventions.

  • service - includes service.name, service.namespace, etc.
  • telemetry.sdk

However the service.instance.id field is NOT stable, but marked as required and an identifying field.

I propose two options:

  1. We stabilize service.instance.id and make it identifying on service.
  2. We create a new entity service.instance. There would be a "has-a" relationship between service and service.instance. Initially, service.instance would only consist of its id. service would be identified by namespace and name.

UPDATE:

We will take option (2) and open in semconv.

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