open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib

OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Python modules

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Dominant language: Python
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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31 beginner-friendly issues open

Logging: don't include injected trace context attributes in emitted records Open

feature-request

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#5071 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
`LoggingInstrumentor` `log_hook` only runs when there is an active span Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#5069 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
[grpc] AIO server spans record uncaught exceptions twice Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#5068 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026
[boto3sqs] delete_message_batch returns inside its loop, so it handles the first entry only Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#5061 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
gRPC: disable_next_message_compression() raises AttributeError with server instrumentation Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#5034 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
requests instrumentation: document request_hook mutation and propagation ordering Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#4990 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
redis: db.namespace is not shown for Redis database index in stable semconv mode Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#4986 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2026
`openai` 3.x: `server.address` / `server.port` are never recorded (`isinstance` check misses `httpx2.URL`) Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#4953 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Remove `packaging` as a runtime dependency of `opentelemetry-instrumentation-pika` Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#4886 · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Remove `packaging` as a runtime dependency of `opentelemetry-instrumentation-flask` Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#4885 · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Remove `packaging` as a runtime dependency of `opentelemetry-instrumentation-falcon` Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#4884 · Opened Jul 28, 2026
`opentelemetry-instrumentation-mysqlclient`: expose `capture_parameters` Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#4790 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 13, 2026
`opentelemetry-instrumentation-mysql`: expose `capture_parameters` Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#4789 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Add Kafka Consumer Group to Kafka Instrumentation Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#4593 · Opened May 18, 2026
opentelemetry-bootstrap -a install is unnecessarily slow — recommend piping to pip install in docs Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#4484 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 23, 2026
Flask instrumentation: http.server.active_requests gauge leaks on exception (missing try/finally) Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#4431 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 14, 2026
grpc-instrumentation: simplify tests-requirements here to use latest-oldest testing pattern Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#4201 · Opened Feb 13, 2026
The stack trace is missing when an exception is thrown. Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#3914 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 2, 2025
sqlcommenter: put the comment at the beginning of the query Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#3583 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 13, 2025
Update CONTRIBUTING.md with sample PR for GenAI Open

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#3126 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 20, 2024
grpc instrument throw exception if a user set interceptor as tuple type. Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#2780 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 6, 2024
Document log record enrichment behavior of logging instrumentation Open

documentation good first issue instrumentation

Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 68/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#2642 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 27, 2024
Django's http_server_active_requests guage has wrong description Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#2513 · 1 comment · Opened May 10, 2024
Starlette allows an unauthenticated and remote attacker to specify any number of form fields or files #27 Open

bug

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 75/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#2403 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 9, 2024
Werkzeug DoS: High resource usage when parsing multipart/form-data containing a large part with CR/LF character at the beginning #24 Open

bug

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#2402 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2024
SQLAlchemy is vulnerable to SQL Injection via group_by paramete Open

bug

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#2400 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 9, 2024
DOCS: benchmark page points to 404 Open

bug

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#2012 · Opened Oct 20, 2023
Route included in metrics auto-instrumentation ASGI Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#1316 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 6, 2022
urllib3 does not work with boto3 Open

bug help wanted instrumentation

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#1235 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 19, 2022
Add note to contributing guide about instrumentation name Open

documentation good first issue help wanted

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 74/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#910 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 10, 2022
Before we publish a pkg to PyPi, install release candidate package with pip to verify it Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#622 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2021

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