OpenTelemetry

Observability framework

90
Project is healthy
Funding
Stable
Maintenance
Active
Contributors
Healthy
Bus Factor
Low risk
Metrics last updated: 6 days ago (2026-02-07)

Overview

OpenTelemetry is a collection of APIs, SDKs, and tools to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data for analysis.

Importance

  • Unified observability standard
  • Powers modern observability stacks
  • Foundation for vendor-neutral telemetry
  • CNCF incubating project

Key Features

  • Traces, metrics, logs collection
  • Vendor-neutral APIs
  • Auto-instrumentation
  • OTLP protocol

Sustainability

OpenTelemetry is a CNCF project with strong corporate backing from major observability vendors and cloud providers.

Dependencies

⬆️ Depends On (1)
OpenTelemetry
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Dependency Chain

Upstream
Linux Kernel
OpenTelemetry

Impact Analysis

1 Direct Dependencies
0 Dependent Projects
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