open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet
The OpenTelemetry .NET Client observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
95/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 86
- 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: 37.5
- age_days: 2675
- days_rel: 12
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 15
Adoption not part of the score
3743 stars · 895 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
The official OpenTelemetry SDK and API implementation for .NET, providing vendor-neutral instrumentation for traces, metrics, and logs. It supports .NET and .NET Framework applications and exports telemetry via OTLP or other exporters to any observability backend.
Use cases
- instrument a .NET application with distributed tracing
- collect metrics from ASP.NET Core services
- export logs and traces to Jaeger or Prometheus
- add observability to microservices without vendor lock-in
- correlate traces, metrics, and logs across services
- send telemetry via OTLP to an observability backend
When to choose
- you need standards-based, vendor-neutral telemetry in .NET apps
- you want to instrument traces, metrics, and logs with one framework
- you need to switch observability backends without changing instrumentation code
- you are building cloud-native or microservices on .NET
When to avoid
- you need a full observability backend with storage and visualization - OpenTelemetry only generates and exports data
- you are on .NET Framework 3.5, which is unsupported
- you want zero-code instrumentation only - this repo is the SDK/API for code-based instrumentation
Facets
library · maturity stable
tracing monitoring logging sdk monitoring microservices developer-tools dotnet cross-platform windows opentelemetry telemetry metrics distributed-tracing otlp observability asp-net-core instrumentation devops linux macos
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet · fetched 2026-08-28 · d8af324adbd6
- homepage: https://opentelemetry.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · 51756d27c4f1
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 06566227bba9
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/what-is-opentelemetry · fetched 2026-08-29 · dd58475f7d30
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/demo · fetched 2026-08-29 · 03a34a004b8f
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/signals/traces · fetched 2026-08-29 · 123b7f8bc630
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/signals/metrics · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5fe9fc342c92
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/signals/logs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 126e1fa6c0a2
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/signals/baggage · fetched 2026-08-29 · fc18d0d07d4b
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/instrumentation/zero-code · fetched 2026-08-29 · c811260b8c51
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet | main | 95 |
For agents
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