open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android

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OpenTelemetry Tooling for Android

Stars: 297
Forks: 113
Open beginner issues: 1
Indexed issues: 96
Avg merge: 1d 13h
Merged PRs (30d): 51

Dominant language: Kotlin
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue

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96 open issues indexed

Separate session ID attribution from user activity Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#2049 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Define versioned session persistence across process recreation Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#2048 · 11 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2026
DSL should allow removing default resource values Open

agent-dsl-enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#2045 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
DSL should allow setting SessionIdProvider Open

agent-dsl-enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#2044 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
DSL should allow way of specifying propagators Open

agent-dsl-enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#2043 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
DSL should allow specifying custom processors and samplers Open

agent-dsl-enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#2042 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Auto generate instrumentations semconv README entries Open

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#2020 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Modify smoke tests to use smoke-test-fake-backend Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1994 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Remove some default global attributes Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1966 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Figure out schemas and versions and stability Open

semconv stabilization

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1960 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Add native stack unwinding to native crash reports Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1940 · 7 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 29, 2026
Native crash handler could interfere with other handlers Open

bug instrumentation:crash

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1928 · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Check alternatives to sort instrumentations during installation Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1914 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Do we want an attribute for cold start? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1911 · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Update VisibleScreenTracker to use Compose screen names. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1909 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 21, 2026
DSL vs imperative configuration and disk buffering DSL config Open

enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1821 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 17, 2026
Use kotlin semantic event classes where appropriate Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1810 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 11, 2026
Support Otlp Profiling Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1808 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 11, 2026
Network detection model is limited/broken Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1772 · 2 comments · Opened May 26, 2026
AppStart and ActivityTracer enhancements Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1753 · Opened May 19, 2026
What to do about the common module Open

stabilization

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1740 · 2 comments · Opened May 12, 2026
What to do about the services module Open

services stabilization

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1739 · 3 comments · Opened May 12, 2026
Migrate the demo-app to the opentelemetry demo repo Open

demo-app

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1724 · 2 comments · Opened May 5, 2026
ANR signal name change, incorrect documentation, unique signal identifier for metrics Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1687 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 15, 2026
Define ignoreURLs generic use case and weigh different technical approaches Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1686 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 14, 2026
Allow Global Access Pattern for OpenTelemetryRum Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1585 · 9 comments · Opened Feb 12, 2026
Replace SpanEvents Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1579 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 10, 2026
We need a way to discover span and logs customiser coming from different instrumentation Open

wontfix

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1577 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 9, 2026
Implement Instrumentation for Scroll and Gesture Events Open

enhancement new-instrumentation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1576 · 8 comments · Opened Feb 9, 2026
Expose more customization for metrics Open

agent-dsl-enhancement enhancement needs maintainer feedback

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1544 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 27, 2026
Compatibility issues when using opentelemetry-android with minimum required versions Open

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1526 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 21, 2026
GRPC Exporter Open

enhancement help wanted

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1507 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 12, 2026
Add location instrumentation which will append geo attributes for each traces and logs Open

enhancement new-instrumentation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1491 · 7 comments · Opened Dec 30, 2025
Rename the `crash` in `CrashReporterInstrumentation.name` from `crash` to `java_crash` as in future we might support native crash from android Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1484 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 18, 2025
Dynamic headers for requests to otel collector Open

agent-dsl-enhancement enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1482 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Dec 16, 2025
RUM Events - Forks and Roadmap Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1433 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 28, 2025
Change span events to event events. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1411 · Opened Nov 20, 2025
Incorporate `versionCode` in `service.version` and start adding `app.build_id` Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1403 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 19, 2025
When process terminates unexpectedly from a crash/force close the ongoing session is not closed Open

enhancement instrumentation:crash

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1398 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 18, 2025
there should be option(configurable) to add the frame data to each span Open

enhancement instrumentation:slow-rendering

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1382 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 12, 2025
[disk-buffering] - How to enable OTEL disk buffering while using a custom BatchSpanProcessor configuration? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1380 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 11, 2025
SessionId is missing when `OpenTelemetryRumBuilder.build()` is used. Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1378 · 7 comments · Opened Nov 11, 2025
Address TODO in SignalFromDiskExporter Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1335 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 23, 2025
Feature Request: compose/click module could use a TestTag semantic property as a fallback to set clickable element name Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1311 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 15, 2025
Context propagation lost when using coroutines Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1308 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 13, 2025
Request body missing using latest agent version Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1307 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 13, 2025
In crashes and ANR put the state of all the threads in attributes Open

enhancement semconv

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1306 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 13, 2025
Should we poll cpu/core count? Open

enhancement new-instrumentation question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1286 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 3, 2025
HTTP Automatic Instrumentation Enhancement for network phases breakdown via HTTP Span Events Open

enhancement semconv

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1267 · 5 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Sep 30, 2025
The very first set of network attributes are calculated as permission denied Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android#1216 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 10, 2025

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