opentelemetry
v0.31.0 GrowingOpenTelemetry API for Rust
Quick Verdict
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (15.7K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (Apache-2.0)
Security
Deep Insights
13.7M downloads in the last 30 days (456.5K/day), up 22% from the previous period.
15.7K crates depend on opentelemetry — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
This crate is maintained by a team (2 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.
Despite being 6+ years old, opentelemetry hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
Notable dependents include opentelemetry_sdk, tracing-opentelemetry, opentelemetry-semantic-conventions, opentelemetry-http, opentelemetry-otlp. When high-quality crates choose opentelemetry, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["trace", "metrics", "logs", "internal-logs", "futures"]
