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Application Real-Time Monitoring Service:Span attributes and resources for the 4.x agent

Last Updated:Aug 28, 2025

The OpenTelemetry Specification defines the attributes and resources that a span should contain for each plugin type. However, to reduce the amount of reported data, the Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS) agent does not record all of these attributes in spans by default. If you enable the Record OTel Spec conventional attributes switch on the Custom Configuration page, the ARMS agent adds the corresponding attributes to spans for each framework.

Common attributes

Attribute name

Meaning

Example

Notes

rpc.type

The call type of the current span.

0, 40, 60

This field is for internal ARMS use and is subject to change. You can ignore its content.

serviceType

The service type of the current span.

1000, 1010

This field is for internal ARMS use and is subject to change. You can ignore its content.

ali.trace.flag

The identifier of the Alibaba Cloud observability product that collected and reported the trace data.

  • arms: Application Real-Time Monitoring Service

  • x-trace: Managed Service for OpenTelemetry

arms

This field is for internal ARMS use and is subject to change. You can ignore its content.

component.name

The name of the component that corresponds to the current span.

mysql, http

For all possible values, see Application Monitoring metrics.

hasInternalSpan

Indicates whether the current span has a span whose `spanKind` is `Internal`.

1

This attribute is included only in the LocalRootSpan.

otel.scope.name

The name of the plugin that generated the current span.

io.opentelemetry.jdbc

-

otel.scope.version

The version number of the plugin that generated the current span.

1.28.0-SNAPSHOT

-

root.service.id

The ID of the first ARMS application that the trace passes through.

aokcd***@b57c445******

-

sample.service.id

The ID of the application that determines whether the trace is sampled and reported.

aokcd***@b57c445******

ARMS supports various sampling methods. The application that determines sampling is not always the entry application. For more information, see Trace sampling modes (for agent versions 3.2.8 and later).

sample.reason

The sampling policy that was hit when the decision to sample the trace was made.

s4

For more information, see Sampling tags.

ppid

The ID of the upstream application.

aokcd***@b57c445******

-

thread.name

The thread name.

http-nio-8080-exec-162

-

thread.id

The thread ID.

12783

-

trace.protocol.type

The trace context propagation protocol for the current trace.

EagleEye, W3C

This attribute is included only in the LocalRootSpan.

Common resources

Resource name

Meaning

Example

Notes

host.name

The hostname of the machine where the application runs.

mall-gateway-54c647a51d-db78a

Added in version 4.5.0.

agentVersion

The agent version.

4.5.0_3d5f5f7

-

acs.arms.service.id

The ARMS service ID.

gauui7wh2@8a8763fbd23c898cd52***

This field is for internal ARMS use and is subject to change. You can ignore its content.

acs.arms.workspace

The ARMS workspace name.

default-cms-1324351***-cn-hangzhou

This field is for internal ARMS use and is subject to change. You can ignore its content.

arms.appId

The ARMS application ID.

gauui7wh2@8a8763fbd23c898cd52***

This field is for internal ARMS use and is subject to change. You can ignore its content.

clusterId

The ACK cluster ID.

c98cd52967df89a8e9***

Exists only in ACK environments. The value is obtained from the KUBERNETES_CLUSTER_ID environment variable.

ipv4

The IP address of the application.

127.0.0.1

-

namespace

The cluster namespace.

default

Exists only in Kubernetes environments. The value is obtained from the KUBERNETES_POD_NAMESPACE environment variable.

workloadKind

The workload type.

Deployment

Exists only in Kubernetes environments. The value is obtained from the ARMS_WORKLOADKIND environment variable.

workloadName

The workload name.

mall-gateway

Exists only in Kubernetes environments. The value is obtained from the ARMS_WORKLOADNAME environment variable.

Attributes specific to HTTP spans

Attribute type

Attribute name

Meaning

Example

Common attribute

http.method

The HTTP method name.

GET, POST

http.status_code

The HTTP status code.

200, 404, 500

status

The converged HTTP status code.

200, 4xx, 5xx

HTTP server span attribute

http.path

The path of the HTTP request.

/api/v1/user

http.route

The route of the HTTP request.

/api/v1/user

`http.route` is different from `http.path`. For example, in a typical SpringMVC application, if an HTTP interface is declared with a path parameter, such as `/api/v1/{userId}`, `http.route` records `/api/v1/{userId}` and `http.path` records the actual request path.

http.params

The parameters of the HTTP request. This is the content after the ? in the URL.

userId=123

HTTP client span attribute

destId

The domain name and port number of the HTTP request.

127.0.0.1

endpoint

The path of the HTTP request.

/api/v1/user

Attributes specific to RPC calls

Attribute type

Attribute name

Meaning

Example

Common attribute

rpc.system

The RPC framework.

Dubbo, gRPC

rpc.service

The service name of the RPC call.

com.test.TestService

rpc.method

The method name of the RPC call.

sayHello

destId

The peer address.

127.0.0.1:20880

Attributes specific to scheduled tasks

Attribute type

Attribute name

Meaning

Example

Common attribute

job.system

The scheduled task framework.

ShchedulerX, XXLJob

job.id

The task ID.

2847

job.name

The task name.

testJob

job.result.status

The task execution status.

success

Attributes specific to messaging calls

Attribute type

Attribute name

Meaning

Example

Common attribute

messaging.system

The messaging framework.

RocketMQ, Kafka

messaging.operation

The message processing action.

publish, receive, process

messaging.message.payload_size_bytes

The message size.

137

messaging.destination.name

The message topic.

user_order

destId

The address of the message broker.

rmq-********-vpc.cn-beijing.rmq.aliyuncs.com:8080

endpoint

${destId} + @ + ${messaging.destination.name}

rmq-********-vpc.cn-beijing.rmq.aliyuncs.com:8080@user_order

Attributes specific to RocketMQ

messaging.consume.delay_ms

The message consumption latency. This attribute is supported only by RocketMQ.

128

Attributes specific to Kafka

messaging.kafka.destination.partition

The partition where the Kafka message is located.

5

messaging.kafka.message.offset

The offset of the Kafka message in the partition.

42

messaging.kafka.message.key

The Kafka message key.

mykey

Database/NoSQL

Attribute type

Attribute name

Meaning

Example

Common attribute

db.name

The database name.

This is parsed from the full connection string. If the connection string does not contain this information, the field is empty.

test

net.peer.name

The domain name and port from the database connection string.

*****.mysql.rds.aliyuncs.com:3306

sql

The database statement.

SELECT * FROM user WHERE user_id=?

db.statement.id

The 16-character encoded ID of the database statement.

5a620e8cf06156a5

destId

The database name. The content is the same as `db.name`. This is a redundant attribute for compatibility with different query scenarios and will be removed in a future release.

test

endpoint

The database connection string. The content is the same as `net.peer.name`. This is a redundant attribute for compatibility with different query scenarios and will be removed in a future release.

*****.mysql.rds.aliyuncs.com:3306

out.ids

The database connection string. The content is the same as `net.peer.name`. This is a redundant attribute for compatibility with different query scenarios and will be removed in a future release.

*****.mysql.rds.aliyuncs.com:3306

opType

The database operation type.

SELECT

response.size

The size of the database query response, in bytes.

54

MongoDB attribute

db.mongodb.collection

The name of the collection for the MongoDB operation.

user

Redis attribute

redis.command.key

The key accessed in Redis.

key