Anaconda Telemetry Documentation

This document serves as both the API documentation and a quick start guide.

Contents

Anaconda OpenTelemetry Documentation

• Getting Started
  • Disclaimer on Developer Logs
  • Install the Package
  • Configuration vs. Attribute Values
  • Prepare the Configuration Object
    • Configuration Default Endpoint
    • Metric, Log, and Tracing Configuration
    • Optional Session Entropy
  • Prepare the ResourceAttributes Object
    • Adding more attributes
  • Initialize Telemetry
    • Optional Signal Streams
• Recording Telemetry
  • Recording Logs
  • Record Metrics
    • Naming Metrics
  • Tracing with Context Manager
    • Naming Traces
• OpenTelemetry Concepts
  • Resource Attributes
  • Attributes
  • Telemetry Schema
    • Dynamic Resource Attributes
• Best Practices for Product Telmetry with OpenTelemetry
  • Deciding on a Signal Type (Traces vs Metrics vs Logs)
    • Logs
    • Simple Event Logs
    • Metrics
    • Traces
• Examples of anaconda-opentelemetry usage
  • Configuration
    • Creating Configuration
    • Specific Endpoint for Signal
    • Optional Session Entropy
    • Disabling Session ID
  • ResourceAttributes
    • Adding more attributes
  • Initializing Telemetry
    • Optional Signal Streams
  • Recording Telemetry
    • Logs
    • Metrics
    • Traces
  • Schema
    • Dynamic Resource Attributes in the Schema
    • Disabling Automatic Attribute Collection
    • Excluding Specific Auto-Collected Attributes
• Testing and Visualizing Telemetry Locally
• Schema Versions for anaconda-opentelemetry Payloads
  • Current Schema
    • [v0.5.0] (9/4/2026)
  • Historic Schemas
    • [v0.4.0] (4/16/2025)
    • [v0.3.0] (12/01/2025)
    • [v0.2.0] (07/18/25) - (12/01/2025)
    • [v0.1.0] (06/18/25)
  • Example Full OpenTelemetry Metric Payload - [Schema <= v0.2.0]
    • All schemas newer than v0.2.0 show a full payload example