Propose a new K8s SemConv SIG project

[ChrsMark]

The Opentelemetry community would like to work on K8s Semantic Conventions in order to add any missing attributes and/or metrics and stabilize the existing ones. The primary goal of this is to help with the adoption of the respective OTel Collector receivers and processors.

TODOS:

1. Expand the list of domain experts
2. Define meeting time
3. Create the slack channel, agenda doc, calendar event, project board

[ChrsMark]

Pinging relevant people here. Please explicitly ask for being included in the domain experts list if you are not already.

/cc @open-telemetry/semconv-k8s-approvers @open-telemetry/semconv-container-approvers @TylerHelmuth @dmitryax @dashpole @jinja2 @frzifus @mx-psi @povilasv @jamesmoessis @AlexanderWert @rogercoll @braydonk @jsuereth

Feel free to advertise this and/or proposing people for joining this project.

[rogercoll]

Thanks for pushing this SIG @ChrsMark ! I think it is really needed to standardize all the k8s and container metrics, which should help with the alignment between the different collector's related receivers (kubeletstats, dockerstats, podmanstats, etc.)

I would gladly join the SIG and share my domain expertise, specially in the containers area.

[braydonk]

I support the new SIG! I don't have enough expertise in the general k8s area to join, but will spread the word with some more knowledgeable folks to see who would be interested.

[jaronoff97]

As a maintainer of the operator and helm charts, id love to be added to this effort. It would be great if we could improve and standardize more in the k8s world.

[gyliu513]

Thanks @ChrsMark , happy to see this proposal, can we extend this SIG a little bit to cover k8s cost as well by https://github.com/opencost?

[ChrsMark]

Thank's for the suggestion @gyliu513!
This SIG will initially focus on the k8s.* (and a bit of container.*) namespace. The primary focus is to stabilize the basic resource attributes and metrics which are already widely used by the Collector. Then of course we can examine additional semantic conventions.

@gyliu513 do you have specific semantic conventions in mind that you would like to introduce? If so, you can always propose them with an issue and it could be added in the SIG's backlog.

[dmitryax]

Thanks for starting the SIG! I'm happy to help with this effort

[ChrsMark]

Any suggestions/proposals regarding meeting times? I suggest we start with bi-weekly meetings. Looking into https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=c_2bf73e3b6b530da4babd444e72b76a6ad893a5c3f43cf40467abc7a9a897f977@group.calendar.google.com, I see Wednesday 8:00am PDT as a good option. Please share your feedback folks.

[dashpole]

8 am is also the Promethues WG, with I lead, but it is every-other-week. I could join if we also did this project every other week offset from the prometheus wg.

[ChrsMark]

We are still in need of a second sponsor for this SIG. Based on #2361 someone from @open-telemetry/specs-semconv-maintainers can be the 2nd sponsor here.

[AlexanderWert]

I'm happy to sponsor this effort!

[ChrsMark]

It seems that we have a 2nd sponsor from SemConv maintainers.

We will need to add:

• a slack channel
• Google doc for agenda
• calendar event + zoom meeting
• project board

But these can be added after we have merged this first PR for the project.

Could we get some eyes from the GC please?

[trask]

@AlexanderWert can you review/approve? thanks!

[trask]

@open-telemetry/governance-committee please review, I think we decided we want approvals from majority of GC for new projects

I've added this to Thursday's Governance Committee meeting agenda in case we don't have enough GC approvals by then

[tedsuo]

Looks like a solid proposal 👍

[ChrsMark]

I have filed #2371 to add the project board.

We will still need a slack channel, Google doc for agenda and a calendar event + zoom meeting. Could someone from @open-telemetry/governance-committee help with those? We also need a GC liaison to be assigned to this project.

[trask]

We will still need a slack channel, Google doc for agenda and a calendar event + zoom meeting. Could someone from @open-telemetry/governance-committee help with those?

this should be done now: #2372 (comment)

We also need a GC liaison to be assigned to this project.

I've added this topic to this week's GC meeting agenda

[trask]

I've added this topic to this week's GC meeting agenda

see #2377