open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator
Kubernetes Operator for OpenTelemetry Collector observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
99/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 98
- 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: 12
- age_days: 2450
- days_rel: 16
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 50
Adoption not part of the score
1748 stars · 649 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A Kubernetes Operator written in Go that manages the lifecycle of OpenTelemetry Collector instances and auto-instrumentation of workloads via custom resource definitions. It also provides components like the Target Allocator for distributing Prometheus scrape targets and an OpAMP Bridge for remote collector management.
Use cases
- deploy and manage OpenTelemetry Collector instances on Kubernetes
- automatically inject OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation into application pods
- run collectors as sidecars, daemonsets, or deployments via CRDs
- distribute Prometheus scrape targets across collector replicas
- remotely configure collectors with OpAMP
- upgrade and scale telemetry pipelines declaratively
When to choose
- you run workloads on Kubernetes and want managed OpenTelemetry Collectors
- you want zero-code auto-instrumentation injected into pods
- you need declarative CRD-based telemetry pipeline configuration
- you want Prometheus target discovery balanced across collector instances
When to avoid
- you are not running Kubernetes
- you prefer manually deploying collectors with plain manifests or Helm
- you need a standalone collector outside a cluster
- you only need client-side SDK instrumentation without a collector
Facets
service · maturity active
monitoring tracing deployment container-orchestration infrastructure-as-code monitoring cloud-computing go cloud self-hosted opentelemetry kubernetes-operator observability auto-instrumentation opamp target-allocator crd devops containers kubernetes docker
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator · fetched 2026-08-28 · b20f5ef9fae1
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator | main | 99 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator")
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