From 623041329c3da745e5b073cedadba0b32581354c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrzej Stencel <astencel@sumologic.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 13:17:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add `process.disk.operations` metric to semantic conventions

---
 CHANGELOG.md                                                  | 2 ++
 specification/metrics/semantic_conventions/process-metrics.md | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c03efda5b83..d71b2030285 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ release.
   ([#2874](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/2874))
 - Add `process.paging.faults` metric to semantic conventions
   ([#2827](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/2827))
+- Add `process.disk.operations` metric to semantic conventions
+  ([#2845](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/2845))
 
 ### Compatibility
 
diff --git a/specification/metrics/semantic_conventions/process-metrics.md b/specification/metrics/semantic_conventions/process-metrics.md
index 0f44943eb01..2d2ed1f9223 100644
--- a/specification/metrics/semantic_conventions/process-metrics.md
+++ b/specification/metrics/semantic_conventions/process-metrics.md
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Below is a table of Process metric instruments.
 | `process.memory.usage`          | UpDownCounter                                      | By        | The amount of physical memory in use.                                                                                               |                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | `process.memory.virtual`        | UpDownCounter                                      | By        | The amount of committed virtual memory.                                                                                             |                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | `process.disk.io`               | Counter                                            | By        | Disk bytes transferred.                                                                                                             | `direction` SHOULD be one of: `read`, `write`                                                                                                                                                   |
+| `process.disk.operations`       | Counter                                            | {operations} | Number of disk operations performed by the process                                                                  | `direction` SHOULD be one of: `read`, `write`                                                                                                                                                                   |
 | `process.network.io`            | Counter                                            | By        | Network bytes transferred.                                                                                                          | `direction` SHOULD be one of: `receive`, `transmit`                                                                                                                                             |
 | `process.threads`               | UpDownCounter                                      | {threads} | Process threads count.                                                                                                              |                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | `process.open_file_descriptors` | UpDownCounter                                      | {count}   | Number of file descriptors in use by the process.                                                                                   |                                                                                                                                                                                                 |