For AI agents: A markdown version of this page is available at https://docs.datadoghq.com/opentelemetry/mapping.md. A documentation index is available at /llms.txt.

OpenTelemetry uses semantic conventions to standardize names for different types of telemetry data, ensuring consistency across systems.

The following documentation describes how OpenTelemetry and Datadog conventions map to one another.


Further reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles: