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    OpenTelemetry Go Compile Instrumentation

    backend
    Go
    Apache-2.0
    497 stars
    199 forks
    497 GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 30, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 18 days ago, with 95 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a tool to automatically instrument Go applications with OpenTelemetry at compile time without manual source code changes.
    • Enables zero runtime overhead by injecting instrumentation directly into the binary during the build process.
    • Use for adding telemetry to Go applications and their dependencies without modifying existing source code.
    • Use for instrumenting third-party Go libraries that you do not control to gain observability insights.
    • Use for integrating OpenTelemetry instrumentation seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines for automated telemetry builds.

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

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    • README: present
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    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    This project provides a tool to automatically instrument Go applications with OpenTelemetry at compile-time. It modifies the Go build process to inject OpenTelemetry code into the application without requiring manual changes to the source code.

    The otelc binary will be built in the root directory.

    Excerpt from the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-compile-instrumentation README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    199+56

    Open issues

    166-1

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