OpenTelemetry to Dynatrace semantic mapping

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Dynatrace automatically maps OpenTelemetry semantic conventions to the Dynatrace Semantic Dictionary.

This mapping ensures consistent data interpretation across your observability stack and enables Dynatrace apps, analytics, and visualization features to work with OpenTelemetry instrumentation.

Messaging operations

Dynatrace maps OpenTelemetry messaging attributes to the Dynatrace semantic model.

OpenTelemetry attribute	Dynatrace attribute
`messaging.operation`	`messaging.operation.type`

For messaging.operation.type, the value send is normalized to publish.

URL parsing

Dynatrace automatically parses url.full into its constituent components:

Derived attribute	Description
`url.path`	The path component of the URL
`url.scheme`	The protocol scheme (for example, `https`)
`url.fragment`	The fragment identifier
`url.query`	The query string
`server.address`	The host address
`server.port`	The port number

Deprecated attributes

Dynatrace maps deprecated OpenTelemetry HTTP attributes to their current equivalents:

Deprecated attribute	Current attribute
`http.url`	`url.full`
`http.method`	`http.request.method`
`http.status_code`	`http.response.status_code`

Cloud provider attributes

Dynatrace creates provider-specific attributes from standard OpenTelemetry cloud attributes.

Account and project identifiers

Dynatrace creates provider-specific account attributes from the standard cloud.account.id attribute:

Cloud provider	OpenTelemetry attribute	Created attribute
AWS	`cloud.account.id`	`aws.account.id`
Azure	`cloud.account.id`	`azure.subscription`
Google Cloud	`cloud.account.id`	`gcp.project.id`

Regional attributes

Dynatrace creates provider-specific region attributes from standard cloud.region and related attributes:

Cloud provider	OpenTelemetry attributes	Created attribute
AWS	`cloud.region`	`aws.region`
Azure	`cloud.region`	`azure.location`
Google Cloud	gcp.location``gcp.zone``cloud.region``cloud.availability_zone	`gcp.region`

For Google Cloud, if multiple source attributes are present, they are evaluated in the order listed above.

Use standard OpenTelemetry conventions

Standard OpenTelemetry semantic conventions are supported in your instrumentation. Dynatrace handles the translation automatically. This allows standard OpenTelemetry semantic conventions to work with Dynatrace semantic analysis.