diff --git a/docs/docs/enterprise/opentelemetry.mdx b/docs/docs/enterprise/opentelemetry.mdx
index 9d25783839f..a86ecfd2b3e 100644
--- a/docs/docs/enterprise/opentelemetry.mdx
+++ b/docs/docs/enterprise/opentelemetry.mdx
@@ -185,6 +185,25 @@ Example using Console:
   width="745px"
 />
 
+Your observability tool may expect to receive certain resource attributes in order to provide full functionality; such
+resource attributes must be set with this parameter. Many, but not all, of these resource attributes will be
+[OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/semantic-conventions/).
+
+Hasura automatically sets some resource attributes. The values of such attributes can be overridden by specifying
+your own value for the attribute using this parameter.
+
+#### Default resource attributes
+
+| Attribute | Type | Default |
+| --------- | ---- | ------- |
+| [service.name](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/reference/specification/resource/semantic_conventions/#service) | string | `hasura` |
+
+:::info Attribute type support
+
+Hasura currently only supports string-valued attributes.
+
+:::
+
 ## Understanding traces
 
 Use your observability tool's UI to visualize and perform further analytics on trace data to monitor, diagnose and
diff --git a/server/src-lib/Hasura/RQL/Types/OpenTelemetry.hs b/server/src-lib/Hasura/RQL/Types/OpenTelemetry.hs
index 31f23718b1f..0fb874830ed 100644
--- a/server/src-lib/Hasura/RQL/Types/OpenTelemetry.hs
+++ b/server/src-lib/Hasura/RQL/Types/OpenTelemetry.hs
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ import Data.Aeson (FromJSON, ToJSON (..), (.!=), (.:), (.:?), (.=))
 import Data.Aeson qualified as Aeson
 import Data.Bifunctor (first)
 import Data.Environment (Environment)
+import Data.Map.Strict (Map)
+import Data.Map.Strict qualified as Map
 import Data.Set (Set)
 import Data.Set qualified as Set
 import Data.Text qualified as Text
@@ -341,7 +343,12 @@ data OtelExporterInfo = OtelExporterInfo
     _oteleiTracesBaseRequest :: Request,
     -- | Attributes to send as the resource attributes of an export request. We
     -- currently only support string-valued attributes.
-    _oteleiResourceAttributes :: [(Text, Text)]
+    --
+    -- Using Data.Map.Strict over Data.Hashmap.Strict because currently the
+    -- only operations on data are (1) folding and (2) union with a small
+    -- map of default attributes, and Map should be is faster than HashMap for
+    -- the latter.
+    _oteleiResourceAttributes :: Map Text Text
   }
 
 -- | Smart constructor for 'OtelExporterInfo'.
@@ -381,15 +388,16 @@ parseOtelExporterConfig otelStatus env OtelExporterConfig {..} = do
                   { requestHeaders = headers ++ requestHeaders uriRequest
                   },
               _oteleiResourceAttributes =
-                map
-                  (\NameValue {nv_name, nv_value} -> (nv_name, nv_value))
-                  _oecResourceAttributes
+                Map.fromList $
+                  map
+                    (\NameValue {nv_name, nv_value} -> (nv_name, nv_value))
+                    _oecResourceAttributes
             }
 
 getOtelExporterTracesBaseRequest :: OtelExporterInfo -> Request
 getOtelExporterTracesBaseRequest = _oteleiTracesBaseRequest
 
-getOtelExporterResourceAttributes :: OtelExporterInfo -> [(Text, Text)]
+getOtelExporterResourceAttributes :: OtelExporterInfo -> Map Text Text
 getOtelExporterResourceAttributes = _oteleiResourceAttributes
 
 data OtelBatchSpanProcessorInfo = OtelBatchSpanProcessorInfo