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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js

OpenTelemetry JavaScript Client observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js · homepage · TypeScript · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

93/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 82
  • 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: 3
  • age_days: 2673
  • days_rel: 43
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 68

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

3446 stars · 1148 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

The official OpenTelemetry JavaScript API and SDK for instrumenting Node.js and browser applications to generate distributed traces, metrics, and logs. It is vendor-neutral, exporting telemetry to any observability backend such as Jaeger, Prometheus, or commercial vendors.

Use cases

  • instrument a nodejs app with distributed tracing
  • export metrics to prometheus from javascript
  • correlate traces across microservices in typescript
  • add observability to a browser frontend app
  • auto-instrument express or http requests without code changes
  • send logs and traces to jaeger from node
  • avoid vendor lock-in for application telemetry

When to choose

  • you need vendor-neutral traces, metrics, or logs in JavaScript or TypeScript
  • you run microservices and need cross-service context propagation
  • you want to switch observability backends without changing instrumentation code

When to avoid

  • you need a full observability backend with storage and visualization - OpenTelemetry only generates and exports data
  • you need a stable, fully-GA SDK for every signal; some JavaScript components remain beta
  • you want zero-code instrumentation for runtimes other than Node.js

Facets

library · maturity active

tracing monitoring logging sdk middleware monitoring microservices developer-tools browser cross-platform cloud opentelemetry telemetry distributed-tracing metrics observability vendor-neutral otlp instrumentation devops nodejs web-server

10 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-jsmain93

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