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OpenTelemetry JavaScript Client

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Dominant language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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169 open issues indexed

Replace the legacy top-level "browser" field with #platform subpath imports Open

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#7088 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 16, 2026
feat(trace-sdk): Support complex and structured attribute values (OTEP 4485) Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#7071 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 4, 2026
[sdk-trace-node] remove sdk-trace-node package in favor of sdk-trace Open

triage:accepted up-for-grabs

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#7054 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 3, 2026
[SDK 3.0] publish 3.0 release Open

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#7049 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 1, 2026
instrumentation-fetch: fetch(Request, init) throws "Request object that has already been used" when the URL is not traced (ignoreUrls / sampled out) Open

bug triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#7037 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 27, 2026
document-load: zero-valued navigation timing events are emitted before their own span's start Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#7017 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Support custom IdGenerator plugins in Node.js declarative/zero-code configuration Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#7011 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 15, 2026
bug(fetch-transport): Chromium (Blink) + OTel SDK + Keepalive = Continued Telemetry Data Loss Open

bug pkg:otlp-exporter-base priority:p2

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#7001 · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 14, 2026
[sdk-node, resources] support `resource.detection/development.attributes` from declarative config Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6986 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 7, 2026
[instrumentation] Consider IITM's include list (createAddHookMessageChannel) as the default for ESM, since wrapping every module breaks bundled apps Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6984 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 6, 2026
[sdk-node] a possible design for *extension* support Open

Discussion

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6979 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Lifecycle fanout can skip processors present at operation start Open

bug pkg:sdk-logs pkg:sdk-trace priority:p2

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6977 · Opened Aug 5, 2026
feat(otlp-exporter-base): allow configuring fetch keepalive for browser OTLP exports Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6968 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 31, 2026
[sdk-node] add support for 'composite/development' sampler to declarative config file path Open

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6961 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 30, 2026
[sdk-trace] support TracerConfigurator Open

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6960 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 30, 2026
[otlp exporters] remove envvar config by default Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6959 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 29, 2026
[exporter-prometheus] remove envvar config handling, leave that to sdk-node Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6958 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
[sdk-node, sdk-metrics] support options to `ConsoleMetricExporter` from declarative config Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6957 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 28, 2026
[sdk-metrics] support MeterConfigurator Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6952 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 27, 2026
[sdk-metrics] support '*', '?' wildcards in `createAllowListAttributesProcessor` and `createDenyListAttributesProcessor` Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6951 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 27, 2026
[sdk-logs] remove deprecated types Open

pkg:sdk-logs

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6940 · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Consider adding a opentelemetry-js specific alternative to startActiveSpan that automatically ends the span and records exceptions for the common case Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6936 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 20, 2026
Planned SDK 3.0 Release (Important Dates and Information) Open

announcement :loudspeaker:

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6926 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 17, 2026
[all] update sampler usages in core and contrib Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6925 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 17, 2026
Consider an unctx based context propogator Open

feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6916 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 15, 2026
[exporter-jaeger] drop deprecated `@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger` package Open

pkg:exporter-jaeger target:next-major-release triage:accepted

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6900 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 9, 2026
[sdk-trace] introduce factory functions for built-in samplers Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6858 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 26, 2026
Pull Request Dashboard Open

dashboard

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6856 · Opened Jun 25, 2026
migrate from sdk-trace-web to sdk-trace Open

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6855 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 25, 2026
Bring your own clock Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6816 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 16, 2026
Define stability criteria and plan for the configuration package and startNodeSDK() Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6808 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 16, 2026
build: cache nx compilation to build once across the unit-test matrix Open

up-for-grabs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6795 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 15, 2026
consider "allowScripts" and "devEngines" to allowlist deps that can use npm scripts Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6789 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 5, 2026
Generate GenAI Semantic Conventions Open

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6783 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 3, 2026
@opentelemetry/otlp-exporter-base createHttpAgent() ignores HTTPS_PROXY env / EnvHttpProxyAgent — silent telemetry loss for users behind env-proxies Open

bug pkg:otlp-exporter-base priority:p2

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6638 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 27, 2026
[sdk-node] enable SDK health metrics Open

feature-request never-stale

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6624 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 23, 2026
support **zero** `timeoutMillis` in exporters Open

feature-request never-stale

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6617 · Opened Apr 21, 2026
[exporter-prometheus] align with specification Open

needs:refinement pkg:exporter-prometheus target:next-major-release type:feature-tracking

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6605 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 17, 2026
[sdk-trace-*] remove env-var configuration Open

blocked needs:refinement pkg:sdk-trace-base pkg:sdk-trace-node pkg:sdk-trace-web target:next-major-release

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6595 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 15, 2026
Capture response time in spans attributes to analyze screen actions performance Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6585 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 13, 2026
[sdk] investigate if using a set is quicker for awaiting resources in logs/span processors Open

pkg:sdk-logs pkg:sdk-trace-base

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6568 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 7, 2026
perf: consider moving away from HrTime Open

never-stale

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6553 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 3, 2026
implement ProbabilitySampler, deprecate `TraceIdRatioBasedSampler` Open

feature-request never-stale up-for-grabs

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6541 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2026
_httpPatched guard breaks ESM instrumentation when IITM proxy holds stale snapshots Open

bug pkg:instrumentation-http priority:p2

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6489 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 11, 2026
Replace `serviceInstanceDetector` with `serviceDetector` Open

pkg:configuration

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6488 · 6 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Mar 11, 2026
[api-logs] consider renaming `LogAttributes` to `ComplexAttributes` Open

Discussion never-stale pkg:api-logs

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6349 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 29, 2026
[ci] introduce allow-list for benchmarks that are uploaded opentelemetry.io Open

internal never-stale

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6324 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 21, 2026
otlp-grpc-exporter: Expose gRPC ChannelOptions in OTLP gRPC Exporters Open

feature-request stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6231 · 6 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Dec 17, 2025
Zoneless Angular Context manager Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6211 · 6 comments · 13 reactions · Opened Dec 11, 2025
v8 Panics and Excludes plugin from instrumentation. Open

bug priority:p4

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#6153 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 23, 2025

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