Remove the concept of supported temporality, keep preferred #2154
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Signed-off-by: Bogdan Drutu <bogdandrutu@gmail.com>
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| preferred temporality is explicitly specified then the SDK SHOULD respect that, | ||
| otherwise use Cumulative. |
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We should strengthen the normative requirements here to ensure compatibility and keep error behavior explicitly to avoid ambiguity.
| preferred temporality is explicitly specified then the SDK SHOULD respect that, | |
| otherwise use Cumulative. | |
| preferred temporality is explicitly specified then the SDK MUST provide data using that temporality if it can. | |
| If the SDK is not capable of providing data with the explicitly specified temporality it MUST be treated as an error. | |
| Otherwise, if no preferred temporality is specified, the SDK SHOULD provide data with Cumulative temporality. |
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MUST provide data using that temporality if it can.
MUST and "if it can" are kind of opposite, is it a MUST or not.
The reason not to use must is because 20 lines below we have:
OpenTelemetry SDK
authors MAY choose the best idiomatic design for their language:
- Whether to treat the temporality settings as recommendation or enforcement.
For example, if the temporality is set to Delta, would the SDK want to perform
Cumulative->Delta conversion for an Asynchronous
Counter, or downgrade it to a
Gauge, or keep consuming it as Cumulative due to the
consideration of memory
efficiency?
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MUST provide data using that temporality if it can.
MUST and "if it can" are kind of opposite, is it a MUST or not.
The reason not to use must is because 20 lines below we have:
OpenTelemetry SDK
authors MAY choose the best idiomatic design for their language:
- Whether to treat the temporality settings as recommendation or enforcement.
For example, if the temporality is set to Delta, would the SDK want to perform
Cumulative->Delta conversion for an Asynchronous
Counter, or downgrade it to a
Gauge, or keep consuming it as Cumulative due to the
consideration of memory
efficiency?
Gotcha 👍 . Thoughts on being explicit with the errors response?
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I think most (all?) implementations currently do the cumulative -> delta conversion, right? This would not be an error state. So since everything is allowed, do you mean that there should be a standard way of letting users know what is happening?
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golang does not, and probably other languages may not do as well (not sure).
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Thoughts on being explicit with the errors response?
Wait, how was this resolved?
Signed-off-by: Bogdan Drutu bogdandrutu@gmail.com
Fixes #2130