topic Use OTel Attributes as request names in Open Q&A https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Use-OTel-Attributes-as-request-names/m-p/270817#M35797 <P>I have a service that uses that same URL for every request, even though every request is not doing the same thing.&nbsp; The good news is that we have been able to apply Otel instrumentation to the service and can see a span in our traces that tells us more specifically what the request is.&nbsp; The bad news is that you can only really see this data within a single trace.&nbsp; I would like to use the Otel attribute value as the service request name, can this be done?&nbsp;</P> Mon, 10 Mar 2025 07:41:48 GMT gdalessandro 2025-03-10T07:41:48Z Use OTel Attributes as request names https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Use-OTel-Attributes-as-request-names/m-p/270817#M35797 <P>I have a service that uses that same URL for every request, even though every request is not doing the same thing.&nbsp; The good news is that we have been able to apply Otel instrumentation to the service and can see a span in our traces that tells us more specifically what the request is.&nbsp; The bad news is that you can only really see this data within a single trace.&nbsp; I would like to use the Otel attribute value as the service request name, can this be done?&nbsp;</P> Mon, 10 Mar 2025 07:41:48 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Use-OTel-Attributes-as-request-names/m-p/270817#M35797 gdalessandro 2025-03-10T07:41:48Z Re: Use OTel Attributes as request names https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Use-OTel-Attributes-as-request-names/m-p/271916#M35933 <P>&nbsp;It looks like there are some hard limits currently around <A href="https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/observe/applications-and-microservices/services/service-detection-and-naming/service-types/unified-service#endpoint-detection" target="_self">endpoint naming</A> for unified services. Fingers crossed that OpenPipeline will soon gain the ability to modify span data on arrival. Perhaps post this type of functionality as a product idea..</P> Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:18:45 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Use-OTel-Attributes-as-request-names/m-p/271916#M35933 marco_irmer 2025-03-07T21:18:45Z