open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation

OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation and instrumentation libraries for Java

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Dominant language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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233 open issues indexed

Replace collision-only VirtualField wrappers with named fields Open

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#20179 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Apply scoped ThreadLocal guidance across the repository Open

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#20164 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Assert schema URLs for all emitted spans Open

enhancement needs triage

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#20141 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Make semantic convention selection OpenTelemetry instance-scoped Open

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#20135 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Audit experimental-span-attributes configuration before 3.0 Open

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#20125 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 12, 2026
Track repository consistency nits Open

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#20113 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 12, 2026
Provide an option to disable cache for ClassLoaderHasClassesNamedMatcher Open

enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#20107 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Apply advice binding matcher guidance across javaagent instrumentations Open

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#20103 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Share strict database server port parsing Open

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#20097 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Migrate javaagent module unit tests to the unitTests suite Open

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#20095 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Apply visible-for-testing comments consistently Open

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#20049 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Gate Couchbase 3.x SDK-detail telemetry and normalize span kinds under v3 preview Open

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#20036 · 1 reaction · 2 assignees · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Split Redis instrumentation into focused PR stacks Open

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#20010 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Expand Couchbase instrumentation test coverage Open

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#20006 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Track existing instrumentation locking risks and lifecycle-safe fixes Open

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#20000 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 5, 2026
Apply inline conditional assertion rule across tests Open

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19984 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 4, 2026
IBM MQ: report the queue manager identifier and messaging.system on JMS spans Open

enhancement needs triage

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19979 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Track messaging telemetry ownership migration Open

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19955 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Avoid main-thread disk I/O during InstrumenterCustomizerProvider SPI initialization on Android Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19954 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Lettuce/Jedis: record the Redis server's run_id as a span attribute Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19946 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Apache HttpAsyncClient 4.1 instrumentation can prevent the original FutureCallback from completing Open

needs repro

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19944 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Investigate reducing JMX metrics library test runtime Open

enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 43/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19939 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Align messaging target and network peer attributes with semantic conventions Open

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19913 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Align database target and network peer attributes with semantic conventions Open

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19899 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Buffer javaagent logs emitted before logging initialization Open

enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19898 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Support for Apache Storm Topology Open

contribution welcome enhancement new instrumentation

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19888 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Netty - Add Gauges for Direct Memory Usage & Max Open

enhancement needs triage

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19880 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Bump GenAI instrumentation to the latest semconv in 3.0 Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19857 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Bump RPC instrumentation to the latest semconv in 3.0, even if RPC semconv isn't stable yet Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19856 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Unify structured logging attribute configuration and capture by default Open

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19854 · 1 reaction · 2 assignees · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Instrument AWS SNS PublishBatch Open

enhancement needs triage

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19835 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Add per-message creation spans for RocketMQ 4.8 batch sends Open

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19836 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Consider removing experimental from configuration properties in 3.0 where it makes sense Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19828 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Add opt-in `messaging.rabbitmq.vhost.name` and `messaging.rabbitmq.cluster.name` span attributes Open

enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19821 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
[Lettuce] Redis timeouts in OpenTelemetry 2.30.0+ Open

bug needs triage

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19814 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Malformed Bedrock streams can fail application streams or consume unbounded memory Open

bug needs triage

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19812 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Add reusable Gradle helpers for derived JVM test suite variants Open

enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19792 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
[jmx] enable stable metrics by default + allow include/exclude Open

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19780 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Declarative spring_starter.debug never enables span logging Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19726 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Use a shared Redis span-name attributes getter Open

enhancement needs triage

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19717 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Propagate context to CompletableFuture continuations when the future is completed by another thread Open

enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19713 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Generalize messaging Create-span configuration Open

enhancement needs triage

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19700 · 1 reaction · 2 assignees · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Deprecate elasticsearch-rest-7.0 library instrumentation and collapse elasticsearch-rest-common-5.0 to javaagent-only Open

enhancement needs triage

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19697 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Promote code semantic conventions from instrumentation-api-incubator to instrumentation-api Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19645 · Opened Aug 15, 2026
Stabilize jdbc library instrumentation Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19644 · Opened Aug 15, 2026
Micrometer / Spring metrics compatibility Open

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19569 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 13, 2026
`otel.javaagent.logging=application` drops `trace_id` from logback output Open

bug needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19546 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 12, 2026
SOFA RPC client span remains open when a custom async transport bypasses FilterChain.onAsyncResponse Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19509 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Add include/exclude selectors for captured collections Open

enhancement needs triage

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19444 · Opened Aug 8, 2026
Add Resilience4j circuit breaker support to Java auto-instrumentation Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#19440 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 7, 2026

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