An analytic engine would periodically collect all LogRecords and store them for analytics.

The diagnostic information may be collected in a cloud environment, where it can be analysed. This may be for predictive maintenance or for process optimization. The LogRecord Structure provides fields that can help an analytics engine, by providing correlation information between various Servers (TraceContext), and also the support for the grouping of information inside of a Server (TraceContext).

Figure B.2 - Analytics client illustration

OpenTelemetry Mapping (Normative)