open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go
OpenTelemetry Go API and SDK
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #175 of 2,794 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 6%).
4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 18 days ago, with 414 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #35 in the weekly ranking the week of Apr 19, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides Go APIs and SDK to collect and export telemetry data including traces, metrics, and logs for observability.
- Offers stable, vendor-neutral instrumentation compatible with multiple observability backends and Go versions.
- Use for instrumenting Go applications to capture distributed traces and performance metrics.
- Use for exporting telemetry data to platforms like OTLP, Prometheus, Zipkin, or stdout for monitoring.
- Use for building custom telemetry instrumentation libraries or extending existing OpenTelemetry Go instrumentation.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. It provides a set of APIs to directly measure performance and behavior of your software and send this data to observability platforms.
Progress and status specific to this repository is tracked in our project boards and milestones.
Project versioning information and stability guarantees can be found in the versioning documentation.
OpenTelemetry-Go ensures compatibility with the current supported versions of the Go language:
Each major Go release is supported until there are two newer major releases. For example, Go 1.5 was supported until the Go 1.7 release, and Go 1.6 was supported until the Go 1.8 release.
For versions of Go that are no longer supported upstream, opentelemetry-go will stop ensuring compatibility with these versions in the following manner:
Currently, this project supports the following environments.
While this project should work for other systems, no compatibility guarantees are made for those systems currently.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+94 stars over 90 days across 11 snapshot days; best day +2 on Jul 25.
Forks
1.5K+85
Open issues
191-16
Compared with peers in Observability
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| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Effect-TS/effect | 17.4K | +60 | 75 | today |
| netdata/netdata | 81.1K | +0 | 75 | 12 days ago |
| langfuse/langfuse | 36.0K | +0 | 75 | 1 day ago |
| gabime/spdlog | 29.7K | +0 | 75 | 289 days ago |
| ccfos/nightingale | 13.4K | +0 | 75 | 9 days ago |
| open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go | 6.6K | +0 | 75 | 18 days ago |
| Category median | 29.7K | +0 | 75 | — |
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