open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go
OpenTelemetry Go API and SDK observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
95/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 87
- 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: 33
- age_days: 2666
- days_rel: 8
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 20
Adoption not part of the score
6526 stars · 1458 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
The official Go implementation of the OpenTelemetry API and SDK for instrumenting applications to generate traces, metrics, and logs. It exports telemetry data to any vendor-neutral observability backend.
Use cases
- instrument a Go service with distributed tracing
- collect metrics from a Go application
- export OpenTelemetry traces to Jaeger or Datadog
- add structured logging with trace correlation in Go
- monitor latency and errors in Go microservices
- set up observability for a Go API
When to choose
- you need vendor-neutral telemetry in a Go application
- you want stable tracing and metrics APIs with an active SDK
- you are standardizing on OpenTelemetry across services
When to avoid
- you need a turnkey no-code observability agent rather than a code library
- your stack is not Go
- you need fully stable log signal support (still beta)
Facets
library · maturity stable
tracing monitoring logging sdk monitoring developer-tools backend microservices go cross-platform opentelemetry observability metrics telemetry apm distributed-tracing instrumentation
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go · fetched 2026-08-28 · 1b5d26e79a53
- homepage: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/go · fetched 2026-08-29 · aaf36065ad03
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 06566227bba9
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/bn/docs/languages/go · fetched 2026-08-29 · ab2b48c433de
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/es/docs/languages/go · fetched 2026-08-29 · c68c63590e9a
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/fr/docs/languages/go · fetched 2026-08-29 · 66bbeea7b0cb
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/ja/docs/languages/go · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9e4036190ecc
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/ko/docs/languages/go · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0877a7272098
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/pl/docs/languages/go · fetched 2026-08-29 · f40ffae720e4
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/pt/docs/languages/go · fetched 2026-08-29 · ed4cb473f2b1
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go | main | 95 |
For agents
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Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem