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Deprecate `service.name`

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
observability

Research direction

Start with model/attributes/service/service__name.json and compare its mapping with the linked OpenTelemetry service and resource semantic conventions. Resolve whether service.name should be deprecated in favor of resource.service.name, then update the convention metadata to reflect the agreed decision.

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@abhi said:

I added https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-conventions/blob/main/model/attributes/service/service__name.json back in the day to map to https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/registry/attributes/service/

This is actually a resource attribute though (https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/resource/#service), so in practice with OTLP we’ll get this sent as resource.service.name. Should we deprecate service.name in favour of resource.service.name?

Service

Resource semantic conventions

https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-conventions/blob/main/model/attributes/service/service__name.json|service__name.json

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