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Sensitive spans fields

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  • Published May 07, 2026

The following fields, as well as any fields listed in the table with the prefix supportability.span_start., are considered sensitive and will be dropped by default for all spans when querying. For example, if client.ip is listed in the table, then supportability.span_start.client.ip will also be considered sensitive.

AttributeTypeDescriptionExamples

client.ip

ipAddress

experimental
Display name: Client IP address
The IP address of the client that makes the request. This can be IPv4 or IPv6.
Tags: sensitive-spans sensitive-user-events

194.232.104.141; 2a01:468:1000:9::140

db.connection_string

string

experimental
Display name: Db connection string
The connection string for a database connection.
Tags: sensitive-spans

jdbc:dynamodb:Access Key=XXX;Secret Key=XXX;Domain=amazonaws.com;Region

db.query.parameters

record[]

experimental
Display name: Query parameters
The query parameters used in db.query.text represented as a key and value map. For database systems without named keys, the map key is the string representation of the index starting with 0. Several database requests may get aggregated into a single span. Each entry in the array holds the bind parameters for one database request.
Tags: sensitive-spans

[{'name': 'paul', 'age': '23'}, {'name': 'mary', 'age': '32'}]; [{'0': 'paul', '1': '23'}, {'0': 'mary', '1': '32'}]

graphql.document

string

experimental
The GraphQL document being executed.
Tags: sensitive-spans

query GetUser { user(id: "123") { name } }; mutation CreateOrder { createOrder(input: $input) { id } }

http.request.header.__key__

string

stable
Display name: HTTP request header
HTTP request headers, __key__ being the lowercase HTTP header name, for example, "http.request.header.accept-encoding". The value is a string. If multiple headers have the same name or multiple header values, the values will be comma-separated into a single string.
Tags: sensitive-spans

https://www.foo.bar/; gzip, deflate, br; 1.2.3.4, 1.2.3.5

request_attribute.__attribute_name__

array

stable
Display name: Request attribute
Contains the request scoped reconciled values of the attribute named __attribute_name__ defined by the request attribute configuration. The data type of the value depends on the request attribute definition.
Tags: sensitive-spans

42; Platinum; ['Product A', 'Product B']; ['Special Offer', '1702']

url.full

string

stable
Display name: Full URL
Absolute URL describing a network resource according to RFC3986.
Tags: sensitive-spans

https://www.foo.bar/docs/search?q=OpenTelemetry#SemConv

url.query

string

stable
Display name: URL query
The URI query component.
Tags: sensitive-spans

q=OpenTelemetry