OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry community content

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

Project Insights

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Health Score

Excellent (89)

Total contributors

67,594

+26% vs. previous year

Total contributing organizations

13,635

+20% vs. previous year

GitHub Stars

62,713

+26% vs. previous year

GitHub Forks

24,097

+29% vs. previous year

Software Value

$284.6M

First commit

April 14, 2017

OpenTelemetry case studies

OpenAI

OpenAI


50% reduction in Fluent Bit CPU utilization

November 12, 2025

How OpenAI Reduced Fluent Bit CPU Usage by 50% and Freed 30,000 Cores

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BRZ

BRZ


Near zero downtime for deployments through GitOps

August 4, 2025

BRZ migrated the Austrian Business Service Portal with 2M+ Users to Keycloak

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