Observability framework for cloud-native software, comprising a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs for exporting application performance metrics to a tracing backend (formerly maintained by the OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects).

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Zipkin

Distributed tracing system backend that helps gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in service architectures.

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Teletrace

Deprecated

Tracetest

SigNoz

Sematext

OpenTracing

Deprecated

OpenCensus

Deprecated

Agent-SRE

AI-native SRE framework with OTel-compatible SLI/SLO metrics, chaos test spans, and canary deployment traces for AI agent observability

Agent-Hypervisor

Runtime supervisor for multi-agent systems with a structured event bus (40+ event types) that exports ring transitions, saga steps, and liability events as distributed traces

Manifest

(GitHub) - Open-source real-time cost observability for AI agents. OTLP-native, accepts standard OpenTelemetry signals via HTTP (JSON and Protobuf). Tracks tokens, costs, messages, and model usage. Self-hostable and privacy-focused.

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traceAI

Open-source OpenTelemetry-native instrumentation framework for AI applications that auto-instruments 20+ LLM providers and agent frameworks, capturing prompts, tokens, latency, and errors with zero code changes.

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Distributed Tracing Solutions >Vendors

Aspecto

AWS X-Ray

Analyze and debug your applications.

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Last9

Honeycomb

Datadog

Dynatrace

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Embrace

Grafana Labs

is an analytics platform that enables you to query and visualize data, then create and share dashboards based on your visualizations. Easily visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources such as Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres, Fluentd, Fluentbit, Logstash and many…

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Instana

Lightstep

LogicMonitor

Logz.io

Lumigo

Metoro

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New Relic

Application monitoring for all your web apps. It’s about gaining actionable, real-time business insights from the billions of metrics your software is producing, including user click streams, mobile activity, end user experiences and transactions.

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Opik

Open source engineering platform to debug, evaluate, and monitor your LLM applications, RAG systems, and agentic workflows with comprehensive tracing, automated evaluations, and production-ready dashboards. (Source Code)

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SigNoz

Splunk

analyzer for machine-generated data.

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TelemetryHub

Coralogix

Dash0

OpenTelemetry Native Observability, built on CNCF Open Standards such as PromQL, Perses and OTLP with full cost control. Supporting Metrics, Traces and Logs with full custom dashboarding and alerting capabilities.

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Sematext

Middleware

A Full-Stack Cloud Observability Platform designed to empower developers and organizations to monitor, optimize, and streamline their applications and infrastructure in real-time.

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TraceKit

groundcover

Yorker

OpenTelemetry-native synthetic monitoring with HTTP and Playwright browser checks, monitoring-as-code via YAML and CLI, and enriched OTLP export to any OTel backend.

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Terminology

Components

Glossary

Quickstart

OpenTelemetry

Aspecto

Vendor

AWS X-Ray

Vendor

Last9

Datadog

Dynatrace

Vendor

Elastic

Vendor

Grafana Cloud

Vendor

Honeycomb

Vendor

Lightstep

Vendor

LogicMonitor

Vendor

Logz.io

Vendor

Metoro

Vendor

New Relic

Vendor

SigNoz

Vendor

Splunk

Vendor

Teletrace

OpenSource

GreptimeDB

Vendor

TelemetryHub

Vendor

Coralogix

Vendor

Sematext

Vendor

Dash0

Vendor

Middleware

Vendor

TraceKit

Vendor

OpenTelemetry Instrumentation >Native - Supported Languages

C++

A language-specific implementation of OpenTelemetry in C++.

.NET

supports Automatic Instrumentation

Erlang/Elixir

A language-specific implementation of OpenTelemetry in Erlang/Elixir.

Go

A language-specific implementation of OpenTelemetry in Go.

Java

supports Automatic Instrumentation

JavaScript

JS logo A language-specific implementation of OpenTelemetry in JavaScript (for Node.JS & the browser).

PHP

A language-specific implementation of OpenTelemetry in PHP.

Python

A language-specific implementation of OpenTelemetry in Python.

Ruby

supports Automatic Instrumentation

Rust

A language-specific implementation of OpenTelemetry in Rust.

Swift

A language-specific implementation of OpenTelemetry in Swift.

OpenTelemetry Instrumentation >GenAI / LLM Instrumentation

TWZRD Agent Intel

On-chain trust scoring and behavioral tracing for AI agent wallets on Solana. MCP server (, ) — use in agentic OTel pipelines to enrich agent spans with on-chain identity and trust score attributes before x402 micropayment-gated resource access. MCP

TraceVerde (genai-otel-instrument)

Comprehensive OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation for LLM/GenAI applications. Zero-code setup for 19+ LLM providers, 8 multi-agent frameworks, 20+ MCP tools with automatic cost tracking for 1,050+ models and GPU metrics.

Future AGI

Open-source end-to-end LLM/agent platform with OpenTelemetry-native tracing (via traceAI), evals, simulations, gateway, and guardrails. Auto-instruments 20+ AI frameworks and LLM providers.

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heimdall-mcp

Transparent proxy for any MCP server that intercepts JSON-RPC messages, measures latency, and exports OpenTelemetry-native spans to any OTLP-compatible backend (Jaeger, Tempo, Grafana) without modifying the original server.

Tuning Engines

AI control and evidence plane that accepts governed model, MCP, skill, workflow, policy, approval, state-reference, and outcome traces while external runtimes keep execution ownership.

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Voight

OpenTelemetry SpanExporter for the Vercel AI SDK mapping gen_ai.* semconv spans to a hosted dashboard. Direct OpenAI / Anthropic wrappers ship the same spans via otel: true with built-in dedup.

OpenTelemetry Instrumentation >ROS2 / Robotics

ros-opentelemetry

End‑to‑End Telemetry for Robotics (ROS2) based on opentelemetry's Python and C++ client libraries.

OpenTelemetry Instrumentation >Vendors Distro

Aspecto

AWS

Azure

Dash0

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Datadog

Dynatrace

Elastic

F5

Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector

In 2 lists

Grafana Labs

Honeycomb

Lightstep

Logz.io

Metoro

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New Relic

Sematext

Sentry Software

Splunk

SigNoz

Sumo Logic

TelemetryHub

Uptrace

Middleware

A Full-Stack Cloud Observability Platform designed to empower developers and organizations to monitor, optimize, and streamline their applications and infrastructure in real-time.

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TraceKit

Full list of vendors that supports OpenTelemetry

Components >Client

OpenTelemetry

Jaeger

Zipkin

Components >Agent

Ingero

eBPF-based GPU causal observability agent with OTLP export. Traces CUDA APIs and host kernel events via uprobes, exports to any OpenTelemetry-compatible backend.

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OpenTelemetry

Components >OTLP

What Is OTLP and Why It's the Future of Observability

Components >Collector

Receivers

How data gets into the Collector

Telflo

AI powered OTel Collector configuration manager with a visual drag and drop pipeline editor and OpAMP based remote management. OTelBin - Online Collector Configuration Tool - OTelBin is a visual editor for the collector configuration.

F5

Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector

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source

Components >Storage

Cassandra

open source NoSQL distributed database

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Elastic

open search and analytics solution

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Jaeger

distributed tracing platform created by Uber Technologies

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Promscale

an open source observability backend for traces and metrics ** deprecated **

SigNoz

SkyWalking

open source APM system

In 3 lists

Splunk

analyzer for machine-generated data.

In 4 lists

Teletrace

Deprecated

GreptimeDB

open source unified observability database for metrics, logs, and traces

In 3 lists

Tempo

Grafana Tempo is an open source, easy-to-use, and high-scale distributed tracing backend.

In 2 lists

Thanos

is a set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity, which can be added seamlessly on top of existing Prometheus deployments.

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Components >Ingester

Kafka

open-source distributed event streaming platform

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Components >UI

Jaeger

KubeStellar Console

Open source AI-powered multi-cluster Kubernetes dashboard with OpenTelemetry support for real-time observability across hybrid edge and cloud. CNCF Sandbox project.

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