# OpenTelemetry

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/opentelemetry/  
**Website:** https://opentelemetry.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 40.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 40.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 65.7 |
| Governance | 13.6 |
| Contract Governance | 13.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 39.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 29.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | verified |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) gRPC API** — 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 ...
- **OpenTelemetry Collector API** — 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 pr...
- **OpenTelemetry SDK API** — 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 ...
- **OpenTelemetry Logs API** — The Logs API from OpenTelemetry — 1 operation(s) for logs.
- **OpenTelemetry Metrics API** — The Metrics API from OpenTelemetry — 1 operation(s) for metrics.
- **OpenTelemetry Traces API** — The Traces API from OpenTelemetry — 1 operation(s) for traces.

## Security (1)

- **Opentelemetry Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Opentelemetry Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Cloud-Native, Logging, Metrics, Monitoring, Observability, Open-Source, Tracing

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/opentelemetry/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.