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OpenTelemetry Python API and SDK

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Open beginner issues: 7
Indexed issues: 332
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Merged PRs (30d): 19

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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332 open issues indexed

Feature Request: Support for `pathlib.Path` objects in OTLP Exporter attributes Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5210 · 2 comments · Opened May 14, 2026
opentelemetry-instrument fails very silently if no configurator is available Open

bug

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5180 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 6, 2026
Weaver tests are flaky on PyPy Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5176 · 2 comments · Opened May 5, 2026
Add reference application for new Getting Started Open

feature-request

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5167 · 10 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 30, 2026
Failing test on windows / 3.14t Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5157 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Issues when releasting patch releases Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5139 · Opened Apr 24, 2026
TraceState does not check illegal inputs Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5136 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 24, 2026
feat(config): unify declarative and env-var configuration through a shared SDK orchestrator Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5126 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 20, 2026
Flaky opentelemetry-sdk tests Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5113 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 16, 2026
Stabilize Prometheus Exporter: Translation Strategy Open

exporters

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5111 · Opened Apr 16, 2026
Stabilize Prometheus Exporter: Default Aggregation Open

exporters

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5109 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 16, 2026
config: Review config env var resolution to configmap Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5103 · Opened Apr 15, 2026
No version of `opentelemetry-sdk` since version 1.0.0 can be installed with --only-final Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5101 · Opened Apr 15, 2026
feat(config): add metric producer support to declarative config Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5073 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2026
Address potential unhandled exceptions in OTLP exporters Open

bug

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5050 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 7, 2026
force_flush should provide a way to let the caller know whether it succeeded, failed or timed out. Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5020 · 12 comments · Opened Mar 29, 2026
Breaking change in 1.40 to Tracer/Span behavior in opentelemetry-api not documented Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5009 · 9 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 24, 2026
Fork-Safety Issue Causing EBADF and Telemetry Data Loss Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4994 · Opened Mar 17, 2026
Upgrade pytest to 8.x Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4969 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 12, 2026
Split semantic conventions package to two to publish stable as 1.x Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4952 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 5, 2026
Question: do newer versions of exporters work with older versions of sdk? Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4881 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 16, 2026
Add Support for `gen_ai` semantic-convention breaking changes in v1.37.0 Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4878 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 12, 2026
CI Failure on patch release PRs if main branch contains different instrumentations than the release branch Open

build & infra

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4853 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 11, 2025
installing xds-proto breaks opentelemetry-proto Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4843 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 8, 2025
Run CI against freethreading python builds Open

build & infra

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4839 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 5, 2025
OTEL Kafka Exporter Open

feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4828 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 2, 2025
ImportError: cannot import name '_ExtendedAttributes' from 'opentelemetry.util.types' Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4811 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 19, 2025
Make it possible to intercept the gRPC channel for OTLP based export Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4802 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 10, 2025
opentelemetry-propagator-b3 doesn't allow the receiver to make sampling decision when X-B3-Sampled header is absent Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4793 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 31, 2025
SemConv metrics codegen: include histogram boundaries Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4788 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 28, 2025
LogRecord deprecation warning with no replacement Open

bug log-breaking-changes

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4783 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 21, 2025
Migrate to UV Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4781 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 18, 2025
Feature gap: MetricProducer Open

feature-request

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4768 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 9, 2025
conflicting information about fork-safety of BatchSpanProcessor Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4759 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Oct 1, 2025
How can I configure OpenTelemetry to disable Span creation and only collect Metrics (without Traces or Logs)? Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4757 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 28, 2025
RuntimeError: can't create new thread at interpreter shutdown Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4752 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 15, 2025
Can't add span processor in post_fork when using `initialize()` Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4748 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 12, 2025
Update Logging API/SDK end use documentation Open

doc feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4738 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 8, 2025
Validate feasibility of supporting new attribute types Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4736 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2025
Make `docs` generation more consistent between CI/CD and local Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4730 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2025
Enable support for data point flags Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4726 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 15, 2025
Follow up to OpenSSF questionnaire Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4718 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 13, 2025
Import error - ImportError: cannot import name 'std_to_otel' from 'opentelemetry._logs' Open

question

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4715 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 11, 2025
Open telemetry auto instrumentation log flush error Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4697 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 24, 2025
Document all entry points somewhere Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4693 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 18, 2025
LogDeprecatedInitWarning Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4687 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 17, 2025
OpenTelemetry metrics exporter keeps getting configured and running with errors, no matter how hard I try to disable it Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4686 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 16, 2025
Distros cannot override the default propagators via OTEL_PROPAGATORS Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4679 · Opened Jul 10, 2025
python instrumentation Encountering an error Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4678 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 10, 2025
instrumentation-python AttributeError: module 'lib' has no attribute 'X509_V_FLAG_NOTIFY_POLICY' Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4670 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 9, 2025

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