Process and Process Runtime Resources

Status: Experimental

Process

type: process

Description: An operating system process.

AttributeTypeDescriptionExamplesRequirement Level
process.commandstringThe command used to launch the process (i.e. the command name). On Linux based systems, can be set to the zeroth string in proc/[pid]/cmdline. On Windows, can be set to the first parameter extracted from GetCommandLineW.cmd/otelcolConditionally Required: See alternative attributes below.
process.command_argsstring[]All the command arguments (including the command/executable itself) as received by the process. On Linux-based systems (and some other Unixoid systems supporting procfs), can be set according to the list of null-delimited strings extracted from proc/[pid]/cmdline. For libc-based executables, this would be the full argv vector passed to main.[cmd/otecol, --config=config.yaml]Conditionally Required: See alternative attributes below.
process.command_linestringThe full command used to launch the process as a single string representing the full command. On Windows, can be set to the result of GetCommandLineW. Do not set this if you have to assemble it just for monitoring; use process.command_args instead.C:\cmd\otecol --config="my directory\config.yaml"Conditionally Required: See alternative attributes below.
process.executable.namestringThe name of the process executable. On Linux based systems, can be set to the Name in proc/[pid]/status. On Windows, can be set to the base name of GetProcessImageFileNameW.otelcolConditionally Required: See alternative attributes below.
process.executable.pathstringThe full path to the process executable. On Linux based systems, can be set to the target of proc/[pid]/exe. On Windows, can be set to the result of GetProcessImageFileNameW./usr/bin/cmd/otelcolConditionally Required: See alternative attributes below.
process.ownerstringThe username of the user that owns the process.rootRecommended
process.parent_pidintParent Process identifier (PPID).111Recommended
process.pidintProcess identifier (PID).1234Recommended

Additional attribute requirements: At least one of the following sets of attributes is required:

Between process.command_args and process.command_line, usually process.command_args should be preferred. On Windows and other systems where the native format of process commands is a single string, process.command_line can additionally (or instead) be used.

For backwards compatibility with older versions of this semantic convention, it is possible but deprecated to use an array as type for process.command_line. In that case it MUST be interpreted as if it was process.command_args.

Process runtimes

type: process.runtime

Description: The single (language) runtime instance which is monitored.

AttributeTypeDescriptionExamplesRequirement Level
process.runtime.descriptionstringAn additional description about the runtime of the process, for example a specific vendor customization of the runtime environment.Eclipse OpenJ9 Eclipse OpenJ9 VM openj9-0.21.0Recommended
process.runtime.namestringThe name of the runtime of this process. For compiled native binaries, this SHOULD be the name of the compiler.OpenJDK Runtime EnvironmentRecommended
process.runtime.versionstringThe version of the runtime of this process, as returned by the runtime without modification.14.0.2Recommended

How to set these attributes for particular runtime kinds is described in the following subsections.

In addition to these attributes, telemetry.sdk.language can be used to determine the general kind of runtime used.

Erlang Runtimes

  • process.runtime.name - The name of the Erlang VM being used, i.e., erlang:system_info(machine).
  • process.runtime.version - The version of the runtime (ERTS - Erlang Runtime System), i.e., erlang:system_info(version).
  • process.runtime.description - string | An additional description about the runtime made by combining the OTP version, i.e., erlang:system_info(otp_release), and ERTS version.

Example:

process.runtime.nameprocess.runtime.versionprocess.runtime.description
BEAM11.1Erlang/OTP 23 erts-11.1

Go Runtimes

Go Runtimes SHOULD fill in the as follows:

  • process.runtime.name - Fill in an interpretation of Go’s runtime.Compiler constant, according to the following rule: If the value is gc, fill in go. Otherwise, fill in the exact value of runtime.Compiler.

    This can be implemented with the following Go snippet:

    import "runtime"
    
    func getRuntimeName() string {
      if runtime.Compiler == "gc" {
        return "go"
      }
      return runtime.Compiler
    }
    
  • process.runtime.version - Fill in the exact value returned by runtime.Version(), i.e. go1.17.

  • process.runtime.description - Use of this field is not recommended.

Examples for some Go compilers/runtimes:

process.runtime.nameDescription
goOfficial Go compiler. Also known as cmd/compile.
gccgogccgo is a Go front end for GCC.
tinygoTinyGo compiler.

Java runtimes

Java instrumentation SHOULD fill in the values by copying from system properties.

  • process.runtime.name - Fill in the value of java.runtime.name as is
  • process.runtime.version - Fill in the value of java.runtime.version as is
  • process.runtime.description - Fill in the values of java.vm.vendor, java.vm.name, java.vm.version in that order, separated by spaces.

Examples for some Java runtimes

Nameprocess.runtime.nameprocess.runtime.versionprocess.runtime.description
OpenJDKOpenJDK Runtime Environment11.0.8+10Oracle Corporation OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 11.0.8+10
AdoptOpenJDK Eclipse J9OpenJDK Runtime Environment11.0.8+10Eclipse OpenJ9 Eclipse OpenJ9 VM openj9-0.21.0
AdoptOpenJDK HotspotOpenJDK Runtime Environment11.0.8+10AdoptOpenJDK OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 11.0.8+10
SapMachineOpenJDK Runtime Environment11.0.8+10-LTS-sapmachineSAP SE OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 11.0.8+10-LTS-sapmachine
Zulu OpenJDKOpenJDK Runtime Environment11.0.8+10-LTSAzul Systems, Inc OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Zulu11.41+23-CA
Oracle Hotspot 8 (32 bit)Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment1.8.0_221-b11Oracle Corporation Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 25.221-b11
IBM J9 8Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment8.0.5.25 - pwa6480sr5fp25-20181030_01(SR5 FP25)IBM Corporation IBM J9 VM 2.9
Android 11Android Runtime0.9The Android Project Dalvik 2.1.0

JavaScript runtimes

JavaScript instrumentation SHOULD fill in the values by copying from built-in runtime constants.

  • process.runtime.name:
    • When the runtime is Node.js, fill in the constant value nodejs.
    • When the runtime is Web Browser, fill in the constant value browser.
  • process.runtime.version:
    • When the runtime is Node.js, fill in the value of process.versions.node.
    • When the runtime is Web Browser, fill in the value of navigator.userAgent.

Examples for some JavaScript runtimes

Nameprocess.runtime.nameprocess.runtime.version
Node.jsnodejs14.15.4
Web BrowserbrowserMozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.71 Safari/537.36

.NET Runtimes

.NET instrumentation SHOULD fill in the values by following values:

  • process.runtime.name - Fill in the value by the name of runtime.
  • process.runtime.version - Fill in the value of System.Environment.Version for .NET, determine version based on the registry values for .NET Framework
  • process.runtime.description - Fill in the values of System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation.FrameworkDescription.

process.runtime.name has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value SHOULD be used, otherwise a custom value SHOULD be used.

  • .NET Framework
  • .NET
  • .NET Core
  • .NET Native

Examples for some .NET runtimes

Nameprocess.runtime.nameprocess.runtime.versionprocess.runtime.description
.NET Framework.NET Framework4.8.NET Framework 4.8.9195.0
.NET.NET7.0.14.NET 7.0.14

Python Runtimes

Python instrumentation SHOULD fill in the values as follows:

  • process.runtime.name - Fill in the value of sys.implementation.name

  • process.runtime.version - Fill in the sys.implementation.version values separated by dots. Leave out the release level and serial if the release level equals final and the serial equals zero (leave out either both or none).

    This can be implemented with the following Python snippet:

    vinfo = sys.implementation.version
    result =  ".".join(map(
        str,
        vinfo[:3]
        if vinfo.releaselevel == "final" and not vinfo.serial
        else vinfo
    ))
    
  • process.runtime.description - Fill in the value of sys.version as-is.

Examples for some Python runtimes:

Nameprocess.runtime.nameprocess.runtime.versionprocess.runtime.description
CPython 3.7.3 on Windowscpython3.7.33.7.3 (v3.7.3:ef4ec6ed12, Mar 25 2019, 22:22:05) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)]
CPython 3.8.6 on Linuxcpython3.8.63.8.6 (default, Sep 30 2020, 04:00:38)
[GCC 10.2.0]
PyPy 3 7.3.2 on Linuxpypy3.7.43.7.4 (?, Sep 27 2020, 15:12:26)
[PyPy 7.3.2-alpha0 with GCC 10.2.0]

Note that on Linux, there is an actual newline in the sys.version string, and the CPython string had a trailing space in the first line.

Pypy provided a CPython-compatible version in sys.implementation.version instead of the actual implementation version which is available in sys.version.

Ruby Runtimes

Ruby instrumentation SHOULD fill in the values by copying from built-in runtime constants.

  • process.runtime.name - Fill in the value of RUBY_ENGINE as is
  • process.runtime.version - Fill in the value of RUBY_VERSION as is
  • process.runtime.description - Fill in the value of RUBY_DESCRIPTION as is

Examples for some Ruby runtimes

Nameprocess.runtime.nameprocess.runtime.versionprocess.runtime.description
MRIruby2.7.1ruby 2.7.1p83 (2020-03-31 revision a0c7c23c9c) [x86_64-darwin19]
TruffleRubytruffleruby2.6.2truffleruby (Shopify) 20.0.0-dev-92ed3059, like ruby 2.6.2, GraalVM CE Native [x86_64-darwin]