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 (90)

Total contributors

71,010

+25% vs. previous year

Total contributing organizations

14,246

+20% vs. previous year

GitHub Stars

65,620

+24% vs. previous year

GitHub Forks

25,675

+29% vs. previous year

Software Value

$305.1M

First commit

April 24, 2017

OpenTelemetry case studies

Cloudchipr client

Cloudchipr client


45% AWS cloud savings

February 16, 2026

How a Cloudchipr’s client reduced Cloud costs by 45%

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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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