OpenTelemetry

High-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability

OpenTelemetry was accepted to CNCF on May 7, 2019, moved to the Incubating maturity level on August 26, 2021, and then moved to the Graduated maturity level on May 11, 2026.

Project Insights

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Health Score

Excellent (88)

Total contributors

26,325

-9% vs. previous year

Total contributing organizations

4,922

-19% vs. previous year

GitHub Stars

11,257

-21% vs. previous year

GitHub Forks

7,604

+28% vs. previous year

Software Value

$396.1M

First commit

April 24, 2017

OpenTelemetry case studies

Splunk

Splunk


67% Reduction in CPU utilization

August 4, 2026

How Splunk Unified Security Observability and Reduced Infrastructure Costs with Cillium’s Tetragon

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HDFC

HDFC


99.999% platform availability across multi-cloud deployments

July 22, 2026

HDFC Bank’s Enterprise Payment Hub: Building a Cloud-Native, Multi-Cloud Payment Platform

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Recorded OpenTelemetry programs