Semantic Conventions for RPC

Status: Experimental

This document defines semantic conventions for remote procedure calls (RPC) , also called “remote method invocations” (RMI).

Semantic conventions for RPC are defined for the following signals:

• RPC Spans: Semantic Conventions for RPC client and server spans.
• RPC Metrics: Semantic Conventions for RPC metrics.

Technology specific semantic conventions are defined for the following RPC systems:

• Connect: Semantic Conventions for Connect RPC.
• gRPC: Semantic Conventions for gRPC.
• JSON-RPC: Semantic Conventions for JSON-RPC.

Specifications defined by maintainers of RPC systems:

• gRPC: Semantic Conventions for gRPC.