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    open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib

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    Collection of extensions for OpenTelemetry-Go.

    backend
    Go
    Apache-2.0
    1.7K stars
    847 forks
    1.7K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 14, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    Ranks #477 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 17%).

    3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 12 days ago, with 316 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a collection of third-party extension packages for OpenTelemetry-Go to enhance observability instrumentation.
    • Offers modular, community-driven instrumentation and exporters that integrate seamlessly with OpenTelemetry-Go for diverse environments.
    • Use for adding OpenTelemetry instrumentation to third-party Go libraries in cloud-native applications.
    • Use for exporting telemetry data from Go applications to various monitoring backends using supported exporters.
    • Use for detecting cloud environment resources and propagating context across distributed Go services.

    Should you depend on it?

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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.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    Collection of 3rd-party packages for OpenTelemetry-Go.

    This project contains both stable and unstable modules. Refer to the module for its version or our versioning manifest.

    Project versioning information and stability guarantees can be found in the versioning documentation.

    Progress and status specific to this repository is tracked in our local project boards and milestones.

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

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    847+31

    Open issues

    231-50

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