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service.name Attribute

The service.name resource attribute is a required and fundamental info that is reported in all telemetry data. It is used to identify the service that emitted a span, metric or log record for useability in most observability tools.

Odigos will automatically populate this attribute based on the name of the Deployment / DaemonSet / StatefulSet. If there are multiple containers in the workload, the service.name will be set to the container name.

If odigos fails to set a service.name, or if you want to override the default value, you can set it manually for a specific source.

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From Odigos UI

Open the sources page in Odigos UI, select the source you want to edit and fill in the value in the Override service.name field for this source.

To undo the override, simply erase the value from the Override service.name field.

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Kubernetes Manifest

You can also set the service.name attribute by adding an annotation to the workload manifest:

odigos.io/reported-name: <your-overwite-service.name>

For example, to set the service.name attribute in telemetry for a deployment named my-deployment, to a value of foo with kubectl, you can run:

kubectl annotate deployment my-deployment odigos.io/reported-name=foo

Below is a snippet of the deployment manifest with the annotation:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  annotations:
    odigos.io/reported-name: foo
name: my-deployment
labels:
  odigos-instrumentation: enabled

To undo the override, simply remove the annotation from the workload manifest.

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