Tracking: 2025 Goals

[MrAlias]

These are the goals we identified for 2025 in our first meeting of the year.

Prioritization

Plan to accomplish in first 3 months

• new semconv (weaver)

Plan to accomplish this year

• SDK self-observability signals
• Go runtime metrics stabilization
• Logs API stable
• otelhttp stabilization
• File-based configuration

Goals

SDK self-observability signals

• Tracking issue: SDK observability #2547
• Blockers: Unification at the semconv level
• Sponsor: @dashpole

Go runtime metrics stabilization

• Tracking issue: Update runtime instrumentation to new semantic conventions opentelemetry-go-contrib#5655
• Blockers: none
• Sponsor: @dashpole

Currently these exist as opt-in metrics. The plan is to get feedback and switch to having them be opt-out instead.

Logs API stable

• Tracking project: https://github.com/orgs/open-telemetry/projects/43
• Blockers:
  • Depends on events signal work at the spec level
  • Adding enabled at the spec level
• Sponsor: @pellared

otelhttp stabilization

• Tracking project: https://github.com/orgs/open-telemetry/projects/87
• Blockers: none
• Sponsor: @dmathieu

File-based configuration

• Tracking label: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib/labels/area%3A%20config
• Blockers: Depends on the stabilization of the file based config
• Sponsor: @MrAlias

new semconv (weaver)

• Tracking issue: Move from build-tools to weaver #5668
• Blockers: Weaver feature support
  • Custom Capitalizations weaver#415
  • Tab indentation weaver#418
• Sponsor: @MrAlias