Event name should be overridable.

[twitchax]

Feature Request

Crates

tracing

Motivation

Compatibility with various otel-ish endpoints.

Proposal

It would be nice if the user could specify the event name in tracing::event!, tracing::error!, etc. Right now, it appears to be set to some default, and many otel endpoints use exception. Allowing the user to override this value would allow them to flag exceptional events in the otel service.

I could possibly implement this.

[davidbarsky]

We're not opposed to this change, but I'm going to close this as a duplicate of #1426. Feel free to take a look at the discussion there for guidance on implementing this.

[hawkw]

As I mentioned in #1426 (comment), I'm happy to merge a PR that adds custom event names, if you're interested in submitting one!