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Attributes in the Honeycomb OpenTelemetry Android SDK

When you instrument your application using the Honeycomb OpenTelemetry Android SDK, spans automatically include a standard set of attributes. These attributes provide essential context about the environment, runtime, device, and SDK versions–helping you understand where and how telemetry is being generated.

Core Span Attributes 

Every span includes these attributes:

  • device.manufacturer: Device manufacturer, reported by android.os.Build.MANUFACTURER.
  • device.model.identifier: Model of the device, reported by android.os.Build.MODEL.
  • device.model.name: See device.model.identifier.
  • honeycomb.distro.runtime_version: Operating system version on the device. See also os.version.
  • honeycomb.distro.version: Version of the Honeycomb SDK in use.
  • os.description: String describing the Android version, build ID, and SDK level.
  • os.name: OS name. Always android for Android devices.
  • os.type: OS type. Always linux on Linux platforms.
  • os.version: Value of android.os.Build.VERSION.RELEASE
  • rum.sdk.version: Version of the OpenTelemetry Android SDK in use.
  • screen.name: Name of the current Activity or Fragment.
  • service.name: Name of your application. Set via setServiceName(). Defaults to unknown_service.
  • service.version: Version of your application. Set via setServiceVersion().
  • telemetry.sdk.language: Coding language for the Honeycomb SDK in use. Always android for the Honeycomb OpenTelemetry Android SDK.
  • telemetry.sdk.name: Name of the telemetry SDK used to generate telemetry data. Always opentelemetry for the Honeycomb OpenTelemetry Android SDK.
  • telemetry.sdk.version: Version of the base OpenTelemetry SDK in use.

Application Not Responding Attributes 

If you include the application not responding instrumentation, then a span is created when the application becomes unresponsive. The span is named ANR and has this attribute:

  • exception.stacktrace: (String) A representation of the call stack of the main thread at the time of the application not responding.

Crash Attributes 

If you include crash instrumentation, a trace is emitted when an uncaught exception will terminate the application. The trace will be named UncaughtException and have these attributes:

  • exception.name: (String) Name of the exception that triggered the crash.
  • exception.message: (String) The exception message.
  • exception.stacktrace: (String) A representation of the call stack of the main thread at the time of the application crash.
  • exception.escaped: (Boolean) Indicates that the exception is escaping the scope of the span.
  • thread.name: (String) The current thread name.
  • thread.id: (Int) The current thread ID.

Slow Rendering Attributes 

If you include slow rendering instrumentation, then a trace is emitted for slow or frozen renders. Slow renders are renders greater than 16ms and frozen renders are greater than 700ms. The traces will be named either slowRenders or frozenRenders and have this attribute:

  • activity.name: (String) Fully-qualified name of the Activity. For example: "my.application.example/MainActivity"

If you include activity instrumentation or fragment instrumentation, then navigation between Activities and Fragments is tracked through the screen.name attribute added to spans.

  • screen.name: (String) Name of the current Activity or Fragment the user is viewing.
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