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Properties

The Properties tab displays the metadata that the knowledge graph has discovered about a service entity. This information comes from OpenTelemetry resource attributes attached to the service’s telemetry data.

Properties table

PropertyDescription
Deployment EnvironmentThe environment the service runs in (for example, production, staging).
JobThe Prometheus job label (namespace/service_name).
NamespaceThe Kubernetes or logical namespace.
Otel NamespaceThe service.namespace OTel resource attribute.
Otel ServiceThe service.name OTel resource attribute.
ProductThe product that discovered this entity (for example, app_o11y).
ServiceThe service name.
SourceThe telemetry backend that provided the data (for example, tempo).
Telemetry Sdk LanguageThe programming language detected from telemetry.sdk.language.
DiscoveredThe date and time the knowledge graph first discovered this service.
UpdatedThe date and time the entity metadata was last refreshed.

How properties are derived

Properties are derived from OpenTelemetry resource attributes that your application emits. The knowledge graph reads these from the target_info or traces_target_info metric and from span resource attributes.

To ensure accurate properties:

  • Set service.name and service.namespace on all telemetry.
  • Set deployment.environment to distinguish between environments.
  • Set telemetry.sdk.language to enable technology detection.

For details on required resource attributes, refer to Set up instrumentation.