Proposal: Define namespaces in yaml #867
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| a namespace is created by weaver which corresponds to the first path segment. | ||
| This namespace will use the default values for a namespace. |
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I like the idea of defining namespaces explicitly. Within Weaver right now there is no concept of namespace whatsoever by design. Hence your proposal.
(I took a wrong turn when developing live-check, I had namespace checking with the . separator built into rust code. This was removed and rewritten in rego policies.)
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- What if I don't want namespaces at all?
- What if I want namespaces but a different separator? Or, just
CamelCase(I've seen examples of this in the wild)
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So my thought would be that there should be a default namespace "default" which items are assigned to if the namespace can not be determined via either of the methods. I think that would handle the scenario of not wanting to use namespaces.
In an effort to keep it simple I would stick with the dot convention being the namespace seperator however if an author is using another convention they should use the explicit option. We could always extend later.
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| This is where the author explicitly states the namespace which this telemetry signal should be associated with. | ||
| This is to help with the when the namespace of an attribute changes. | ||
| For instance `az` has become `azure`. |
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We used to have prefix - I wonder what the reasoning was behind its removal?
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My understanding was prefix was added to the attribute keys etc whereas this explicit namespace can be thought of as aliasing.
| If neither of the 2 previous methods are satisifed, | ||
| a namespace is created by weaver which corresponds to the first path segment. | ||
| This namespace will use the default values for a namespace. |
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Should we have a configuration option to use the folder as fall back source?
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| This is where the author explicitly states the namespace which this telemetry signal should be associated with. | ||
| This is to help with the when the namespace of an attribute changes. | ||
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My understanding was prefix was added to the attribute keys etc whereas this explicit namespace can be thought of as aliasing.
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Progresses #802 and unblocks #849
This provides as a proposal to introducing namespace definitions alongside metrics, attributes etc,
Namespaces are a way in which definitions can be grouped together as well as a method to define & eventually generate additional useful data about that namespace. Such as examples would be revision history & migration guides.