# open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go

> The Go implementation of OpenTelemetry: API and SDK for collecting distributed traces, metrics, and logs and exporting them to observability platforms.

- Magnitude: 0.6 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 6,572 total · +0 stars today, ≈ 2 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: DevOps & infrastructure · Language: Go · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2019-05-16 · Last push: 2026-10-03
- GitHub: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go · Homepage: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/go · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go

## Useful for

- Instrument a Go service to collect traces and metrics
- Configure telemetry export via OTLP, Prometheus, or Zipkin
- Add custom metrics and spans using the otel package

## Why it’s here

- 0 stars so far today, about 2 expected by the end of the day.
- GitHub Trending Go today: #9, +1 star.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,488
- Issues and pull requests: 8,877
- Watchers: 69
- Average over the last week: 1 per day
- Usual pace: 2 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v1.47.0 (2026-10-02)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-05 … 2026-10-04: 2, 1, 0, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 1, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 2, 4, 3, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 2, 0

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

10-03 0.1, 10-04 0.6

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Go today: #9, +1 star

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2. **DataDog/datadog-agent** — 0.0 · Quiet · DevOps & infrastructure · Go · +0 stars today, ≈ 0 by evening
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   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/DataDog/datadog-agent.md
3. **open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib** — 0.9 · Quiet · DevOps & infrastructure · Go · +0 stars today, ≈ 2 by evening
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   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib.md

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