Best practices add tags/labels/attributes to jobs and runs?

[Cyrille Le Clerc]

Dear Jenkins Community,

The Jenkins OpenTelemetry Plugin is looking at mechanism to add key-value tags/attributes to annotate the traces, logs, and metrics we produce from job executions.

These key-value 

Can the community please help me understand what are the best practices to associate tags/attributes/labels to jobs and runs?

Note that I found the promising Job Tags plugin but it's value tags rather than key-value tags so it may be a challenge for my use case.

Cyrille

[link89]

How about creating a dedicated parameter to store tags? 

[Cyrille Le Clerc]

Thanks link89.

I was hoping to be able to leverage existing standard Jenkins capabilities. Creating an OpenTelemetry specific tagging mechanism is indeed an option if we don't find standard solutions.