diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 6ca46dd342c2a4a26520ddc32ac959d144e28553..1c8d02886c9624f4b8461e7680bef222115c52be 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ variables:
       - GO_FIPS_VERSION: ["1.23", "1.24", "1.25"]
 
 backwards_compat:
-  image: registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-build-images/debian-bookworm-golang-1.23-rust-1.73:git-2.45
+  image: registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-build-images/debian-bookworm-golang-1.24-rust-1.73:git-2.45
   parallel:
     matrix:
       - REPO_AND_DIR:
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3cbc02502fedfdeed087031d2e5b9ac06ce506ba..d82237a37e56a3341511ca3aa88a3cca579abddb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -69,6 +69,18 @@ import (
 )
 ```
 
+### Fields
+
+[![](https://godoc.org/gitlab.com/gitlab-org/labkit/fields?status.svg)](http://godoc.org/gitlab.com/gitlab-org/labkit/fields)
+
+```go
+import (
+	"gitlab.com/gitlab-org/labkit/fields"
+)
+
+// fields.GitLabUserID - returns the constant field name you should use to represent this data.
+```
+
 ## Developing LabKit
 
 Anyone can contribute!
diff --git a/fields/doc.go b/fields/doc.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..505b2b7154963bc62228f3b423fea02cb297d874
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fields/doc.go
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+/*
+Package fields is intended to be the SSOT for Go applications for all
+of the field names used within our observability setup.
+
+This is intended to help enforce consistency across components when it
+comes to field names.
+*/
+package fields
diff --git a/fields/fields.go b/fields/fields.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..930a4ee88d5a689a6cdff0f23d8a5c64632007a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fields/fields.go
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package fields
+
+const (
+	// correlation_id - string
+	// This field is used to correlate
+	// the logs emitted by all of our systems.
+	// This should be present in all log line
+	// emissions.
+	CorrelationID = "correlation_id"
+
+	// GitLabUserID - an integer field that
+	// captures the user's numeric ID for logging purposes.
+	GitLabUserID = "gl_user_id"
+
+	// GitLabUserName - a string field that
+	// captures the user's username for logging purposes.
+	GitLabUserName = "gl_user_name"
+)