open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib

Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector

DevOps & infrastructureGo#opentelemetry#open-telemetry

1.1 Quiet Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

Repository of additional components (receivers, processors, exporters, extensions) for the OpenTelemetry Collector that are not part of the core. Used to collect, process, and export telemetry (traces, metrics, logs) from diverse sources.

Useful for

Build a custom Collector distribution with needed components via OpenTelemetry Collector Builder
Wire up a receiver for a non-standard telemetry source and export data to a backend
Add a processor to filter or enrich traces, metrics, and logs before export

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

1 star so far today, about 1 expected by the end of the day.
Recent forks include notable developers: @alecholmes (258 followers).

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 4,938
Stars in a day: 1
Forks: 3,922
Issues and pull requests: 50,519
Watchers: 68
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: v0.161.0 · September 15, 2026
Created: July 11, 2019
Last push: September 18, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 18, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #19, +30 stars
September 17, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #19, +2 stars

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