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OpenTelemetry Java SDK

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Dominant language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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136 open issues indexed

Workflow failed: Build (daily) (#291) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8842 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
ReadWriteLogRecord default getEventName() always returns null Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 90/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8840 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
SdkLoggerProvider.get() returns a real Logger when no processors are configured, unlike loggerBuilder() Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8836 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
AttributesMap counts attribute overwrites as dropped attributes Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8832 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Add mechanism for exporters to signal backpressure to callers Open

Feature Request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8831 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Workflow failed: Sonatype Guide dependency audit (daily) (#136) Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8828 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Make declarative config YAML parsing and object mapping requirements pluggable via SPI Open

Feature Request

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8820 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Apply null guard advice throughout project Open

Feature Request

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8802 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 11, 2026
EndpointUtil.validateEndpoint not handling all valid DNS host names Open

Bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8745 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 24, 2026
No tracer provider in the OpenTelemetrySdk builder makes the application do a lot of work for spans that will be dropped Open

Bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8740 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Delete experimental metric view baggage extraction Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8719 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Fix `otel.sdk.log.created` counting semantics Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8688 · Opened Aug 5, 2026
grpc-managed-channel sender ignores exporter RetryPolicy Open

Feature Request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8653 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 21, 2026
getMap error message shows null value for hyphenated or mixed-case property names Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8642 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 19, 2026
Permit to pass SslParameters to ExporterBuilders for fine grain TLS configuration Open

Feature Request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8558 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 1, 2026
Support selected runtime config changes Open

Feature Request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8549 · Opened Jun 29, 2026
Prototype context scoped attributes Open

Feature Request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8532 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 24, 2026
OTLP exporters should enforce message limits Open

Feature Request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8444 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 2, 2026
Pull Request Dashboard Open

dashboard

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8439 · Opened Jun 1, 2026
Stabilize service.instance.id on resource Open

Feature Request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8410 · 4 comments · Opened May 15, 2026
Stabilize key declarative config APIs Open

Feature Request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8402 · 1 comment · Opened May 12, 2026
Explore multi release jar to leverage Thread.onSpinWait vs. Thread.yield on java 9+ Open

Feature Request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8382 · 1 comment · Opened May 8, 2026
Metrics: clarify and align PeriodicMetricReader export timeout semantics with batching spec Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8311 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2026
Do we have plan to support ScopedValue rather than ThreadLocal? Open

Feature Request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8282 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 11, 2026
Feedback / interest in a user facing log event API? Open

Feature Request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8225 · Opened Mar 30, 2026
Can't build OpenTelemetrySdk in groovy Open

Bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8198 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 18, 2026
Setting `round_robin` load balancing policy Open

Feature Request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8169 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 9, 2026
DeclarativeConfigProperties: no way to coerce types without triggering warnings Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8101 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 18, 2026
Incompatibility with OkHttp 4.x since 1.52.0 Open

Bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#8001 · 12 comments · Opened Jan 22, 2026
Stabilize ConfigProvider Open

Feature Request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7961 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 7, 2026
Better declarative config error messages Open

Feature Request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7949 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 2, 2026
Add comments for suppressed warnings Open

Feature Request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7874 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 26, 2025
Support unix socket for otlp exporter Open

Feature Request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7851 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Add a custom HostnameVerifier for OTLPHttpExporter Open

Feature Request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7796 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Oct 28, 2025
REUSABLE_DATA memory mode creates duplicate aggregator handles in DELTA temporalit Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7729 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 7, 2025
Suppression of warning log in `extractErrorStatus` in HttpExporter.java Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7704 · 10 comments · Opened Sep 24, 2025
Support for Serialization and De-serialization of Metrics and Logs using Spring Data Open

Feature Request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7650 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 9, 2025
AutoConfiguredOpenTelemetrySdk, when configured with ResourceProviders loses logs on startup Open

Bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7649 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2025
Make IncludeExcludePredicate public Open

Feature Request

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7599 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2025
BatchSpanProcessor does not trigger export timeout Open

Bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7511 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2025
Optimize data loss issues for high-resource single-instance deployments that generate a large number of spans. Open

Feature Request help wanted

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7508 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2025
Add known_methods to general section of declarative config Open

Feature Request

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7468 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 7, 2025
MDC Context lost its associated to individual thread Open

Bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7376 · 10 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 29, 2025
Able to see traces with Java, but no trace with Scala (same code) Open

Bug

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7333 · 3 comments · Opened May 8, 2025
Feedback on `ExtendedAttributes` API Open

Bug

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7323 · 1 comment · Opened May 6, 2025
The ContextStorageProvider system prop and error message differ Open

Bug

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7318 · 2 comments · Opened May 4, 2025
Add exemplar reservoir support to View Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7314 · 1 comment · Opened May 1, 2025
Reconsider the experimental ExtendedTracer API in light of proposal to deprecate Span recordException Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7298 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 24, 2025
Move opentelemetry-semconv version management to opentelemetry-bom Open

Feature Request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7279 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 15, 2025
[contribfest] Address FIXME in BaggageCodec Open

contribfest

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#7235 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 2, 2025

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