Roadmap to Profiling Alpha #64
Description
The roadmap below is an attempt to capture the things we want to complete in order to announce the graduation of the profiling signal to alpha as well as the dependencies between tasks.
Note: Nested items depend on each other.
Pre-Alpha
- @jsuereth Do we need to update the v1development import path? #70
- @jsuereth Release opentelemetry-proto v1.10.0 #71 which is blocking:
- @florianl [pdata/pprofile] Add reference based attributes support opentelemetry-collector#14546
- @florianl [pdata/pprofile] Update protoID for messsage Sample fields opentelemetry-collector#14652
- @florianl [chore][countconnector|fileexporter]: fix testdata for profiles opentelemetry-collector-contrib#46331
- @felixge Calendar Access for Ad-Hoc Profiling SIG Meeting(s) community#3318 (schedule additional SIG meeting)
- @aalexand Profiling Alpha Release Blog Post #72
- @christos68k Update documentation for Alpha #84
- @felixge Release collector v0.148.0 #85 which is blocking
- @florianl Propose Profiling Alpha at OpenTelemetry Specification SIG + Maintainers Sync #74 which is blocking
- @jsuereth Profiling Alpha TC Review #73 which is blocking
- @felixge Update profiling to alpha in openetelemetry-proto #76 which is blocking
- @jsuereth Profiling Alpha TC Review #73 which is blocking
- @florianl [chore] Makefile: Enable breaking change check for profiles opentelemetry-proto#774 (comment) (probably not on the critical path)
Alpha Release
Post-Alpha
- TBD Release opentelemetry-proto v1.11.0 (Profiling Alpha) #81
- profiles: Profiles reinvents the attributes opentelemetry-proto#766
- @felixge Propose ideas for sending otlp_version in OTLP payloads #82
- @christos68k List of things to update shortly before or after Alpha announcement #83
- Think about documenting APIs (Start/Stop?) see 2026-03-12 notes
- Think about compatibility issues with OTTL where everything is int64, but we use unit64 in our protos. See 2026-03-12 notes