AI Engineering/Phase 14/Lesson 23

OpenTelemetry GenAI Semantic Conventions

OpenTelemetry's GenAI SIG (launched April 2024) defines the standard schema for agent telemetry. Span names, attributes, and content-capture rules converge across vendors so agent traces mean the same thing in Datadog, Grafana, Jaeger, and Honeycomb.

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Prerequisites: Phase 14 · 13 (LangGraph), Phase 14 · 24 (Observability Platforms)

#Learning Objectives

Name the GenAI span categories: model/client, agent, tool.
Distinguish invoke_agent CLIENT vs INTERNAL spans and when each applies.
List the top-level GenAI attributes: provider name, request model, data-source ID.
Explain the content-capture contract: opt-in, OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_OPT_IN, external-reference recommendation.

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The text and code of this lesson are based on AI Engineering from Scratch by Rohit Ghumare, MIT licensed.