Semantic Conventions for HBase

Status: Experimental

The Semantic Conventions for HBase extend and override the Database Semantic Conventions.

db.system MUST be set to "hbase" and SHOULD be provided at span creation time.

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description	Examples	Requirement Level	Stability
db.collection.name	string	The HBase table name. [1]	mytable; ns:table	Conditionally Required If applicable.
db.namespace	string	The HBase namespace. [2]	mynamespace	Conditionally Required If applicable.
db.operation.name	string	The name of the operation or command being executed. [3]	findAndModify; HMSET; SELECT	Conditionally Required If readily available.
db.response.status_code	string	Protocol-specific response code recorded as string. [4]	200; 409; 14	Conditionally Required If response was received.
error.type	string	Describes a class of error the operation ended with. [5]	timeout; java.net.UnknownHostException; server_certificate_invalid; 500	Conditionally Required If and only if the operation failed.
server.port	int	Server port number. [6]	80; 8080; 443	Conditionally Required [7]
db.operation.batch.size	int	The number of queries included in a batch operation. [8]	2; 3; 4	Recommended
server.address	string	Name of the database host. [9]	example.com; 10.1.2.80; /tmp/my.sock	Recommended

[1] db.collection.name: If table name includes the namespace, the db.collection.name SHOULD be set to the full table name.

[2] db.namespace: If a database system has multiple namespace components, they SHOULD be concatenated (potentially using database system specific conventions) from most general to most specific namespace component, and more specific namespaces SHOULD NOT be captured without the more general namespaces, to ensure that “startswith” queries for the more general namespaces will be valid. Semantic conventions for individual database systems SHOULD document what db.namespace means in the context of that system. It is RECOMMENDED to capture the value as provided by the application without attempting to do any case normalization. This attribute has stability level RELEASE CANDIDATE.

[3] db.operation.name: It is RECOMMENDED to capture the value as provided by the application without attempting to do any case normalization.

The operation name SHOULD NOT be extracted from db.query.text, unless the query format is known to only ever have a single operation name present.

For batch operations, if the individual operations are known to have the same operation name then that operation name SHOULD be used prepended by BATCH , otherwise db.operation.name SHOULD be BATCH or some other database system specific term if more applicable.

This attribute has stability level RELEASE CANDIDATE.

[4] db.response.status_code: The status code returned by the database. Usually it represents an error code, but may also represent partial success, warning, or differentiate between various types of successful outcomes. Semantic conventions for individual database systems SHOULD document what db.response.status_code means in the context of that system. This attribute has stability level RELEASE CANDIDATE.

[5] error.type: The error.type SHOULD match the db.response.status_code returned by the database or the client library, or the canonical name of exception that occurred. When using canonical exception type name, instrumentation SHOULD do the best effort to report the most relevant type. For example, if the original exception is wrapped into a generic one, the original exception SHOULD be preferred. Instrumentations SHOULD document how error.type is populated.

[6] server.port: When observed from the client side, and when communicating through an intermediary, server.port SHOULD represent the server port behind any intermediaries, for example proxies, if it’s available.

[7] server.port: If using a port other than the default port for this DBMS and if server.address is set.

[8] db.operation.batch.size: Operations are only considered batches when they contain two or more operations, and so db.operation.batch.size SHOULD never be 1. This attribute has stability level RELEASE CANDIDATE.

[9] server.address: When observed from the client side, and when communicating through an intermediary, server.address SHOULD represent the server address behind any intermediaries, for example proxies, if it’s available.

The following attributes can be important for making sampling decisions and SHOULD be provided at span creation time (if provided at all):

• db.collection.name
• db.namespace
• db.operation.name
• server.address
• server.port

error.type has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.

Value	Description	Stability
_OTHER	A fallback error value to be used when the instrumentation doesn’t define a custom value.