OpenTelemetry

aid: opentelemetry
name: OpenTelemetry
description: Vendor-neutral open-source observability framework for cloud-native software, providing a collection of tools,
  APIs, and SDKs for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data including metrics, logs, and traces.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Cloud Native
- Logging
- Metrics
- Monitoring
- Observability
- Open Source
- Tracing
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-04-28'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/opentelemetry/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: opentelemetry:opentelemetry-protocol-otlp-http-api
  name: OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) HTTP API
  description: The OTLP HTTP API provides endpoints for exporting traces, metrics, and logs using the OpenTelemetry Protocol,
    the native wire format for transmitting telemetry data between instrumented applications, collectors, and observability
    backends.
  humanURL: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otlp/
  tags:
  - Logging
  - Metrics
  - Observability
  - Tracing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otlp/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/opentelemetry-otlp-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: context.jsonld
  - type: Reference
    url: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otlp/#otlphttp
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/
  - type: Client Libraries
    url: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/
- aid: opentelemetry:opentelemetry-protocol-otlp-grpc-api
  name: OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) gRPC API
  description: The OTLP gRPC API defines Protocol Buffers service definitions for exporting traces, metrics, and logs over
    gRPC. It is the primary transport for OpenTelemetry data between SDK instrumentation, the OpenTelemetry Collector, and
    observability backends, offering bidirectional streaming and efficient binary encoding.
  humanURL: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otlp/#otlpgrpc
  tags:
  - gRPC
  - Logging
  - Metrics
  - Observability
  - Tracing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otlp/#otlpgrpc
  - type: Reference
    url: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otlp/#otlpgrpc-response
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto
- aid: opentelemetry:opentelemetry-collector-api
  name: OpenTelemetry Collector API
  description: The OpenTelemetry Collector is a vendor-agnostic proxy for receiving, processing, and exporting telemetry data.
    It exposes HTTP and gRPC endpoints for receiving OTLP data and provides a configuration API for managing pipelines, receivers,
    processors, and exporters at runtime via the zPages diagnostic extension and config file hot-reloading.
  humanURL: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/
  tags:
  - Collector
  - Configuration
  - Observability
  - Pipeline
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/configuration/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
- aid: opentelemetry:opentelemetry-sdk-api
  name: OpenTelemetry SDK API
  description: The OpenTelemetry SDK API specifies language-level interfaces for instrumentation, including the Tracer, Meter,
    and Logger APIs used by application code to create spans, record metrics, and emit log records. Implementations are available
    for all major programming languages including Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, and others.
  humanURL: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/
  tags:
  - Instrumentation
  - Logging
  - Metrics
  - SDK
  - Tracing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/trace/api/
  - type: Client Libraries
    url: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opentelemetry
- url: https://opentelemetry.io/
  name: OpenTelemetry
  type: Website
  description: Official OpenTelemetry project website.
- url: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/
  name: Documentation
  type: Documentation
  description: Official OpenTelemetry documentation hub.
- url: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/getting-started/
  name: Getting Started
  type: GettingStarted
  description: Guides for getting started with OpenTelemetry instrumentation.
- url: https://github.com/open-telemetry
  name: GitHub Organization
  type: GitHubOrganization
  description: OpenTelemetry GitHub organization containing all project repositories.
- url: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification
  name: OpenTelemetry Specification
  type: GitHubRepository
  description: The OpenTelemetry specification defining APIs, SDKs, and data models.
- url: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/
  name: SDKs
  type: SDKs
  description: OpenTelemetry SDK implementations for all supported programming languages.
- url: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/
  name: Blog
  type: Blog
  description: OpenTelemetry project blog with announcements and technical articles.
- url: https://opentelemetry.io/community/
  name: Community
  type: Community
  description: Community resources including CNCF Slack, SIG meetings, and contribution guides.
- url: https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/CJFCJHG4Q
  name: Slack
  type: Slack
  description: OpenTelemetry community Slack channel in the CNCF Slack workspace.
- url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/open-telemetry
  name: Stack Overflow
  type: StackOverflow
  description: OpenTelemetry-tagged questions and answers on Stack Overflow.
- url: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
  name: Change Log
  type: ChangeLog
  description: Changelog for the OpenTelemetry specification.
- url: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/security/policy
  name: Security
  type: Security
  description: Security disclosure policy for the OpenTelemetry project.
- type: Integrations
  url: https://opentelemetry.io/ecosystem/integrations/
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://opentelemetry.io/llms.txt
integrations:
- name: English EN
- name: Registry
- name: Adopters
- name: Distributions
- name: Vendors
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com