Misleading Description of db.namespace in Documentation - References Server Address and Port

[agent-adam]

Area(s)

area:db

What happened?

Description

The documentation for the db.namespace attribute mentions "fully qualified within the server address and port." don't think the server address is or should be part of the database name.

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Expected Result

Actual Result

Semantic convention version

1.27

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[lmolkova]

The documentation for the db.namespace attribute mentions "fully qualified within the server address and port." don't think the server address is or should be part of the database name.

Thank you for reporting this! Could you please elaborate on what's misleading?

The intention is that db.namespace does not contain server.address|port, but uniquely identifies a database that's hosted there.

E.g. I can have mysql running on localhost:3306 and two databases user and orders there.
When connecting to/querying from users, it would result in the following attributes:

• server.address = localhost
• server.port = 3306
• db.namespace = user

When querying from orders, it would result in

• server.address = localhost
• server.port = 3306
• db.namespace = orders

[agent-adam]

Might just be a miss reading from my end. I see it means that it's the fully qualified name of the database within the context of that server and does not mean that it should include the server address and port values directly.

Thanks for the help here! closing the issue