open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust

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2689 stars · 693 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

The official Rust implementation of the OpenTelemetry APIs and SDKs for instrumenting applications to emit traces, metrics, and logs. It exports telemetry to vendor-neutral backends such as Prometheus, Jaeger, and Zipkin via OTLP and other exporters.

Use cases

• instrument a Rust service with distributed traces
• export metrics to Prometheus from Rust
• send logs and traces via OTLP to an observability backend
• correlate traces across microservices in Rust
• add vendor-neutral telemetry to a Rust application
• propagate context and baggage between services

When to choose

• you need standards-based tracing, metrics, and logs in Rust
• you want to switch observability backends without changing instrumentation
• you need OTLP export to Jaeger, Prometheus, or commercial vendors

When to avoid

• you need a full observability backend with storage and visualization
• you want zero-code auto-instrumentation, which is not offered for Rust
• you need a simple single-signal logger rather than a full telemetry SDK

Facets

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tracing monitoring logging sdk monitoring developer-tools microservices rust cross-platform opentelemetry telemetry metrics distributed-tracing otlp observability jaeger prometheus zipkin

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