# OpenTracing

A place to document (and discuss) the OpenTracing specification. 🛑 This project is DEPRECATED! https://github.com/opentracing/specification/issues/163

Repository: https://github.com/opentracing/specification
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/opentracing
Homepage: http://opentracing.io/spec
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2021-10-11T22:02:43+00:00
Link (homepage): http://opentracing.io/spec

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3580, "days_push": 1787, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1166, forks 177 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:50.244157+00:00)

## What it is
OpenTracing is a vendor-neutral API standard for distributed tracing, with this repo being the Go implementation. It has been deprecated in favor of OpenTelemetry.

## Use cases
- instrument go services with distributed tracing
- propagate trace context across microservices
- add spans to existing go code
- integrate tracing with jaeger or zipkin
- trace requests across service boundaries

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy codebase already built on OpenTracing
- working with a tracing backend that only supports the OpenTracing API

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - use OpenTelemetry instead
- you need actively maintained tracing instrumentation
- you want the latest observability features

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: tracing, monitoring
- domain: monitoring, microservices, developer-tools
- platform: go, cross-platform
- tags: opentracing, distributed-tracing, observability, deprecated, apm

## Member repositories
- opentracing/specification (main) score 10
- opentracing/opentracing-go (sdk) score 10
- opentracing/opentracing-java (sdk) score 10
- opentracing/opentracing-javascript (sdk) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:50.244157+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:36:28.960181+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/opentracing/specification (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:50.244157+00:00, sha 7feb6eac21a0)
  - homepage: http://opentracing.io/spec (fetched 2026-08-29T09:30:59.430630+00:00, sha 140d2037b1a8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.