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Entity represents an object of interest associated with produced telemetry: traces, metrics, logs, profiles etc.
Entities can be instantiated through two complementary approaches:
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Pull-based Model: Entities discover themselves from the current environment by examining the runtime context, system properties, metadata services, and other available sources of entity information.
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Push-based Model: Entities are explicitly provided from external sources, typically through environment variables or configuration. This approach allows entity information to be propagated across process boundaries. See Entity Propagation for more details.
- Data Model
- Entity Propagation - Describes the push-based model for entity instantiation
- Entity Events - Describes how to communicate entity information as structured log events