diff --git a/gobblin-service/src/main/java/org/apache/gobblin/service/monitoring/GaaSJobObservabilityEventProducer.java b/gobblin-service/src/main/java/org/apache/gobblin/service/monitoring/GaaSJobObservabilityEventProducer.java
index 5f612547fc5..860f3ea5874 100644
--- a/gobblin-service/src/main/java/org/apache/gobblin/service/monitoring/GaaSJobObservabilityEventProducer.java
+++ b/gobblin-service/src/main/java/org/apache/gobblin/service/monitoring/GaaSJobObservabilityEventProducer.java
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ public abstract class GaaSJobObservabilityEventProducer implements Closeable {
   public static final String ISSUES_READ_FAILED_METRIC_NAME =  GAAS_JOB_OBSERVABILITY_EVENT_PRODUCER_PREFIX + "getIssuesFailedCount";
   public static final String GAAS_OBSERVABILITY_METRICS_GROUPNAME = GAAS_JOB_OBSERVABILITY_EVENT_PRODUCER_PREFIX + "metrics";
   public static final String GAAS_OBSERVABILITY_JOB_SUCCEEDED_METRIC_NAME = "jobSucceeded";
+  private static final String DEFAULT_OPENTELEMETRY_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE = "-";
 
   protected MetricContext metricContext;
   protected State state;
@@ -138,16 +139,31 @@ public void emitObservabilityEvent(final State jobState) {
   }
 
   public Attributes getEventAttributes(GaaSJobObservabilityEvent event) {
-    Attributes tags = Attributes.builder().put(TimingEvent.FlowEventConstants.FLOW_NAME_FIELD, event.getFlowName())
-        .put(TimingEvent.FlowEventConstants.FLOW_GROUP_FIELD, event.getFlowGroup())
-        .put(TimingEvent.FlowEventConstants.JOB_NAME_FIELD, event.getJobName())
+    Attributes tags = Attributes.builder().put(TimingEvent.FlowEventConstants.FLOW_NAME_FIELD, getOrDefault(event.getFlowName(), DEFAULT_OPENTELEMETRY_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE))
+        .put(TimingEvent.FlowEventConstants.FLOW_GROUP_FIELD, getOrDefault(event.getFlowGroup(), DEFAULT_OPENTELEMETRY_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE))
+        .put(TimingEvent.FlowEventConstants.JOB_NAME_FIELD, getOrDefault(event.getJobName(), DEFAULT_OPENTELEMETRY_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE))
         .put(TimingEvent.FlowEventConstants.FLOW_EXECUTION_ID_FIELD, event.getFlowExecutionId())
-        .put(TimingEvent.FlowEventConstants.SPEC_EXECUTOR_FIELD, event.getExecutorId())
-        .put(TimingEvent.FlowEventConstants.FLOW_EDGE_FIELD, event.getFlowEdgeId())
+        .put(TimingEvent.FlowEventConstants.SPEC_EXECUTOR_FIELD, getOrDefault(event.getExecutorId(), DEFAULT_OPENTELEMETRY_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE))
+        .put(TimingEvent.FlowEventConstants.FLOW_EDGE_FIELD, getOrDefault(event.getFlowEdgeId(), DEFAULT_OPENTELEMETRY_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE))
         .build();
     return tags;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Returns the given string value if it is not empty (i.e., not null and not empty).
+   * Otherwise, returns the specified default value.
+   *
+   * <p>This method utilizes {@link org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils#isNotEmpty(CharSequence)}
+   * to check if the string is non-empty.</p>
+   *
+   * @param value the string to check
+   * @param defaultValue the default value to return if the provided string is empty or null
+   * @return the original string if it is not empty; otherwise, the provided default value
+   */
+  private String getOrDefault(String value, String defaultValue) {
+    return StringUtils.isNotEmpty(value) ? value : defaultValue;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Emits the GaaSJobObservabilityEvent with the mechanism that the child class is built upon e.g. Kafka
    * @param event