# @deepseek-ai/dsh-session-telemetry-otel

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The OpenTelemetry backend for [the telemetry seam](../session-telemetry/) — the only entry a deployment loads. It composes the OTel JS SDK as-is (`LoggerProvider` → `BatchLogRecordProcessor` → OTLP/HTTP log exporter) and maps each record the seam hands over onto `logger.emit()`, under two instrumentation scopes: ledger records on `@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-telemetry-otel`, operational records on `@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-telemetry-otel/ops`. Resource identity (`service.name`/`service.version`) comes from `dsh-llm`'s `APP_IDENTITY`, the same source the attribution headers use, plus `user.id` — the harness home's anonymous user id this package owns (`src/user-id.ts`: `$DSH_HOME/.userid`, a random UUID minted on first use; deleting the file resets the identity), carried once per export batch on the Resource rather than per record.

## Config

```yaml
- id: telemetry-otel
  name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-telemetry-otel'
  config:
    shutdownTimeoutMillis: 3000 # optional; defaults to 3000
    exporter:                # passed verbatim to the SDK's OTLP/HTTP log exporter
      url: https://collector.example.com/v1/logs
      headers:
        authorization: !!js `Bearer ${process.env.OTLP_TOKEN}`
    processor: {}            # optional; passed verbatim to BatchLogRecordProcessor
```

`exporter.url` is required, has no default, and must parse as `http(s)`; `shutdownTimeoutMillis` is a positive finite DSH-owned outer deadline and defaults to 3000 ms; a non-positive-integer `processor.maxExportBatchSize` also fails at plugin load because the SDK accepts it but then hangs on shutdown. Both SDK blocks pass through whole: every `OTLPExporterNodeConfigBase` field (`headers`, `timeoutMillis`, `compression`, `keepAlive`, …) reaches the exporter, and batching, export cadence (`scheduledDelayMillis`), retry, queue bounds, and loss policy under sustained failure are SDK behavior tuned through `processor`. The backend implements no `flush()`: the batch processor owns ordinary flushing. During shutdown, however, OTel awaits `exporter.forceFlush()` before the processor's `exportTimeoutMillis`-bounded completion promise; if that transport promise never settles, this package abandons the wait at `shutdownTimeoutMillis`, logs the contained shutdown failure through the coordinator, and lets application teardown continue. The deadline cannot cancel the SDK transport, so records still pending then may be lost at process exit. Removing this block from `cordis.yml` is the opt-out: no residual state, no `enabled` flag.

## What leaves the machine

Records carry the complete `event.data` as the seam's `telemetry/record` waterfall returns it — user and assistant message content, tool arguments and results (command output, file contents), the full system prompt and tool schemas (`request/header`), todo text, compaction summaries, hook `stderrSummary`, and the session `cwd` (a local path). The seam ships no redaction rules: with no `telemetry/record` listener mounted, that is the raw captured copy, so a deployment exporting beyond a trusted boundary mounts its own rules (see [the seam README](../session-telemetry/README.md#the-redact-waterfall)). Provider credentials never appear regardless: adapter API keys are constructor parameters, not session events, so they are structurally absent from the log and therefore from telemetry.

## Field mapping

Seam record → SDK log record: `time` → `timestamp`/`observedTimestamp`; `severity` → `severityNumber`/`severityText` (INFO 9 / WARN 13 / ERROR 17); `body` → the structured log body; `attributes` verbatim. Receivers dedupe on `(session.id, event.seq)`, alert on severity, and detect crashes by `shutdown`-record absence (a session with activity, no `shutdown` ops record, gone stale ended uncleanly). The marker means telemetry stopped observing the session cleanly — emitted at the session's own disposal, or at application teardown for sessions still running then; a marker followed by more of that session's events is a telemetry reload, not a session restart. Streams are not self-contained across lineage: a resumed session continues its own id's stream from where the previous process left off, and a forked session's stream starts at its inherited boundary — its prefix lives in the parent's stream, stitched via `session.parent_id` + `session.seed_length`. One consequence of continuing rather than replaying: a turn left open mid-stream and never closed marks the previous process dying inside it. The local log is repaired with synthetic closers at resume, but those repairs are never exported — the wire stream stays faithful to what the crashed process actually shipped, and a later clean `shutdown` marker attests only to the resumed process's own exit.

## Model Experience

None, as the backend only forwards the seam's redacted records into the OTel SDK pipeline; it never contributes to a model request.

#### KV Cache effect

None; this package neither assembles nor sends a provider request.

## Known Limitations and Deferred Work

- **Upstream experimental tree** — `@opentelemetry/sdk-logs` is still published from the upstream experimental tree; SDK API churn lands here and only here — the seam contract does not move.
- **Live-collector behavior belongs to the SDK exporter** — authentication, TLS, throttling, and other real OTLP deployment behavior follow the upstream SDK rather than a package-owned compatibility layer.
