Peer

Peer Attributes

These attribute may be used for any operation that accesses some remote service.

Attributes:

KeyStabilityValue TypeDescriptionExample Values
peer.serviceDevelopmentstringThe service.name of the remote service. SHOULD be equal to the actual service.name resource attribute of the remote service if any. [1]AuthTokenCache

[1] peer.service: Examples of peer.service that users may specify:

  • A Redis cache of auth tokens as peer.service="AuthTokenCache".
  • A gRPC service rpc.service="io.opentelemetry.AuthService" may be hosted in both a gateway, peer.service="ExternalApiService" and a backend, peer.service="AuthService".