open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java
OpenTelemetry Java SDK observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
98/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 96
- 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: 27
- age_days: 2745
- days_rel: 26
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 28
Adoption not part of the score
2447 stars · 1018 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
The official OpenTelemetry Java SDK, providing the Java implementation of the OpenTelemetry API for recording traces, metrics, and logs, plus the SDK for managing and exporting that telemetry. It is vendor-neutral, letting you instrument Java applications once and export to any observability backend.
Use cases
- instrument a Java application with distributed traces
- collect metrics from a JVM microservice
- export telemetry to Jaeger or Prometheus
- correlate logs and traces across services
- add observability to a Spring Boot app without vendor lock-in
- propagate context and baggage across microservices
When to choose
- you want vendor-neutral tracing, metrics, and logs in a Java or JVM application
- you need to switch observability backends without changing instrumentation code
- you are building microservices and need cross-service context propagation
- you want the standard, actively maintained OpenTelemetry implementation for Java 8+
When to avoid
- you need a full observability backend with storage and visualization - OpenTelemetry only generates and exports data
- you want zero-code auto-instrumentation only - use the separate OpenTelemetry Java agent instead
- your project is not on the JVM
Facets
library · maturity active
tracing monitoring logging sdk monitoring microservices developer-tools jvm cross-platform opentelemetry observability telemetry distributed-tracing metrics apm vendor-neutral devops android
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java · fetched 2026-08-28 · fbf44e571318
- homepage: https://opentelemetry.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · 51756d27c4f1
- site_page: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/signals/baggage · fetched 2026-08-29 · fc18d0d07d4b
- 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/instrumentation/zero-code · fetched 2026-08-29 · c811260b8c51
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java | main | 98 |
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