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    open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io

    #551 this week

    The OpenTelemetry website and documentation

    documentation
    observability
    opentelemetry
    JavaScript
    CC-BY-4.0
    981 stars
    2.0K forks
    981 GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 12, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #551 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 19%).

    3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 8 days ago, with 450 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #87 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 11, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Hosts the official OpenTelemetry website, documentation, and blog built with Hugo and deployed on Netlify.
    • Provides a centralized, well-maintained resource hub for learning and contributing to OpenTelemetry projects and ecosystem.
    • Use for accessing comprehensive OpenTelemetry documentation and guides to implement observability in distributed systems.
    • Use for submitting blog posts and contributing content to improve OpenTelemetry community knowledge and resources.
    • Use for exploring the OpenTelemetry Registry to discover and add projects within the observability ecosystem.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    CC BY 4.0

    Permissive content license, unusual for code: reuse is allowed with attribution, but it was not written for software.

    Community files

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

    Watch-outs

    No watch-outs from GStars' checks.

    General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score

    From the README

    This is the source repository for the OpenTelemetry website, project documentation, and blog. The site is built using Hugo and is hosted on Netlify.

    For website analytics, see OpenTelemetry.io Analytics dashboard.

    To learn how to contribute fixes and new content to this project, read the Contributor's guide, which includes a style guide and useful information on the review process.

    If you are new to OpenTelemetry and just get started with it, you are in a perfect position to help us get better: the website and documentation is the entry point for newcomers like you, so if something is unclear or something is missing [let us know][].

    For guidance on how to write and submit a blog post, see Submit a blog post.

    Excerpt from the open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io README on GitHub (CC-BY-4.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 10: +0

    +46 stars over 86 days across 8 snapshot days.

    Forks

    2.0K+102

    Open issues

    463-88

    Compared with peers in Documentation

    Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 11, by 7-day star growth

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    open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io981+0758 days ago
    Category median22.0K+075—

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