open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo
This repository contains the OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop, a microservice-based distributed system intended to illustrate the implementation of OpenTelemetry in a near real-world environment. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
97/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 94
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 16
- age_days: 1590
- days_rel: 40
- days_push: 8
- n_releases_24m: 10
Adoption not part of the score
3303 stars · 7056 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
The OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop, a microservice-based distributed e-commerce demo system illustrating OpenTelemetry instrumentation across many languages. It serves as a realistic testbed for vendors, tooling authors, and OpenTelemetry contributors.
Use cases
- learn opentelemetry instrumentation with a real example
- demo distributed tracing in a microservices app
- test observability vendor integrations against a reference app
- explore traces and metrics in jaeger and prometheus
- try opentelemetry sdk features across multiple languages
- run a sample microservices app in docker or kubernetes
- practice debugging distributed systems with telemetry data
When to choose
- you want a realistic, multi-language reference system for learning or demonstrating OpenTelemetry
- you need a testbed to validate observability tooling or vendor integrations
- you want to see how instrumentation works in Go, Java, Python, Rust, .NET, and more in one system
When to avoid
- you need a production-ready e-commerce platform rather than a demo
- you want a minimal example rather than a full multi-service deployment
- you are not interested in observability or OpenTelemetry specifically
Facets
application · maturity active
monitoring tracing microservices developer-tools monitoring microservices developer-tools cloud self-hosted cross-platform opentelemetry observability demo distributed-tracing jaeger prometheus instrumentation sample-application devops docker kubernetes
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo · fetched 2026-08-28 · 56100e695d21
- homepage: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/demo/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · a6b4100258df
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 06566227bba9
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/bn/docs/demo · fetched 2026-08-29 · 564f24fc99ee
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/es/docs/demo · fetched 2026-08-29 · 188fb0ed3578
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/fr/docs/demo · fetched 2026-08-29 · 86d9719df5ae
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/ja/docs/demo · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9698adc30dcf
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/ko/docs/demo · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9e2b9226966c
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/pl/docs/demo · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1dba921f5296
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/pt/docs/demo · fetched 2026-08-29 · 98d21a73ace4
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo | main | 97 |
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