opentelemetry_sdk
v0.32.1 GrowingThe SDK for the OpenTelemetry metrics collection and distributed tracing framework
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 48d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (15.2K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (3 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (Apache-2.0)
Security
Deep Insights
14.3M downloads in the last 30 days (476.5K/day), up 4% from the previous period.
15.2K crates depend on opentelemetry_sdk — 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 (3 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.
Despite being 7+ years old, opentelemetry_sdk hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
Notable dependents include tracing-opentelemetry, opentelemetry-proto, opentelemetry-otlp, opentelemetry-semantic-conventions, opentelemetry-stdout. When high-quality crates choose opentelemetry_sdk, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["trace", "metrics", "logs", "internal-logs"]
