OpenTracing Go
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OpenTracing API for Go. 🛑 This library is DEPRECATED! https://github.com/opentracing/specification/issues/163 observed · 2026-09-24
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3981
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1279
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3478 stars · 314 forks observed · 2026-09-24
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
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
library · maturity abandoned
tracing monitoring monitoring microservices developer-tools go cross-platform opentracing distributed-tracing observability deprecated apm
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/opentracing/opentracing-go · fetched 2026-09-24 · 7feb6eac21a0
- homepage: http://opentracing.io/spec · fetched 2026-08-29 · 140d2037b1a8
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| opentracing/opentracing-go | main | 10 |
| opentracing/opentracing-java | sdk | 10 |
| opentracing/specification | main | 10 |
| opentracing/opentracing-javascript | sdk | 10 |
| opentracing/opentracing-cpp | sdk | 10 |
| opentracing/opentracing.io | docs | 32 |
| opentracing/basictracer-go | backend | 10 |
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