Set aws.vpc.flow.start timestamp field to ISO8601 format #43390
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mowies
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Co-authored-by: Moritz Wiesinger <[email protected]>
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@MichaelKatsoulis given that this has been out in the wild for a little while, I think we should put this change behind a featuregate |
…com:MichaelKatsoulis/opentelemetry-collector-contrib into chore/set-timestamp-field-to-iso8601-format
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@axw I created a feature gate |
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Description
This PR updates the
aws.vpc.flow.startfield type and value format for better standards compliance.Current State:
aws.vpc.flow.start(integer)1609459200)Problem:
The field represents the start timestamp of a VPC flow log entry. AWS provides this value as seconds since epoch, but OpenTelemetry semantic conventions don't currently define timestamp fields using this format. The majority of timestamp fields in semconv use either ISO-8601 string format or nanoseconds since epoch.
Solution:
This PR converts the field to:
aws.vpc.flow.start(string)"2021-01-01T00:00:00.000Z")Benefits:
Example:
aws.vpc.flow.start: 1609459200(int64)aws.vpc.flow.start: "2021-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"(string)Related Issue