Request: Use abbreviated cloud provider prefixes in log attribute key naming conventions

[damemi]

The current specification for mapping fields in the logs data model recommends prefixing company-specific fields with FQDN-style identifiers, for example com.google.* for GCP-specific attributes.

It was explained in the log sig meeting that this is based on the existing attribute naming conventions.

However, it would be easier to use abbreviated attribute prefixes for cloud providers, eg gcp.*, aws.*, azure.*, etc. There are already some conventions for doing this in logs for AWS and tracing. It is also noted elsewhere in the semantic conventions that cloud providers may have specific key names.

So, to make this more consistent it would be nice if we could officially update the logs data model mappings to use that same style of prefix rather than the reverse-FQDN for cloud providers.

[damemi]

/cc @tigrannajaryan
I believe we talked about this on the last log sig call

[pmm-sumo]

Another example for abbreviated attributed prefixes is resource detection processor (it has e.g. Azure-related attributes that are not currently part of the specification)

This might actually fall under the third bullet in the naming conventions recommendations "The name may be generally applicable to applications in the industry". Some clarification might be helpful there

[pmm-sumo]

Also, there is a bit on resource semantic conventions on cloud providers

[damemi]

Opened a PR to make the model changes for GCP attributes: #2514