Mapping OS fields for mobile devices (e.g. Android, iOS)

[AlexanderWert]

Summary
For the APM Mobile agents we would like to properly populate the Operating System Fields.
What is not clear to me is what we would set for os.type and os.platform in case of iOS and Android.

Let's take the example of iOS. According to the description of os.type there is no allowed value that would be valid (because Macos is not iOSand ios is not allowed as a value). Also, in this case, os.platform would have the value darwin (since iOS is based on Darwin). But darwin could also mean that it's a MacOS device (not mobile). So, there is no field where we could put the value ios in to properly categorize the operating system in this case.

Motivation:
Capture and categorize the operating system of mobile devices properly.

Detailed Design:
Does it make sense to add the following values as valid values for os.type?:

• ios
• android

Or are there other ideas how we could handle the scenario described above?

[kgeller]

I think that it does make sense to add ios and android to acceptable values for os.type, and I'd invite you to open a PR to allow that.