CtrlSpice/otel-desktop-viewer

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1209 stars · 53 forks observed · 2026-09-03

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

A CLI tool for receiving and exploring OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs locally, built in Go on top of the OpenTelemetry Collector with a DuckDB backend and a Svelte web UI. It exposes OTLP gRPC and HTTP receivers and serves a local web UI for inspecting telemetry data.

Use cases

• view opentelemetry traces locally while developing
• inspect otel metrics and logs on my machine
• local otel collector with a web ui
• debug distributed tracing during local development
• receive otlp data on localhost without a backend
• explore telemetry signals before shipping to a vendor

When to choose

• you need a zero-setup local viewer for OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs
• you want to inspect OTLP data during development without running a full observability backend
• you prefer a lightweight CLI tool with a built-in web UI

When to avoid

• you need production-grade telemetry storage, alerting, or team-wide dashboards
• you require long-term retention or querying of telemetry at scale
• your Linux distribution ships an older glibc than 2.39

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

tracing monitoring logging developer-tools cli http-server monitoring developer-tools windows cli go opentelemetry otlp observability local-development duckdb svelte command-line macos linux docker

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