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OpenTelemetry Python API and SDK

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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

Include trace flags in spans exported by the OTLPSpanExporter Open

feature-request

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4666 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2025
Logs example does not export info or debug logs Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4650 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 20, 2025
Sporadic Connection Errors on Azure containers apps/jobs Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4632 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 11, 2025
tracer_provider.shutdown() does not provide a configurable timeout Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4623 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 7, 2025
Give a warning whenever span attribute was truncated Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4604 · 1 comment · Opened May 29, 2025
opentelemetry-semantic-conventions: handle explicit buckets for metrics helpers Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4598 · Opened May 23, 2025
LoggingHandler can be initialized in a bad state, has type checking problems Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4582 · 2 comments · Opened May 14, 2025
Object of type "None" is not subscriptable Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4569 · 2 comments · Opened May 7, 2025
Make timeout of `Exporter.export` configurable and decide how to update Exporter interfaces Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4568 · 1 comment · Opened May 6, 2025
Plan for span event API deprecation Open

api discussion sdk

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4561 · 6 reactions · Opened Apr 24, 2025
Unable to measure TAT of mysql-connector Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4558 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 22, 2025
Allow resetting global providers Open

api enhancement feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4557 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 21, 2025
OTEL_*_EXPORT_TIMEOUT should do something Open

bug sdk

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4555 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 18, 2025
make record_exception api consistent Open

feature-request question

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4541 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 10, 2025
Retry 413 / payload too large errors in OTLP batch exporter Open

feature-request sdk

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4533 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 8, 2025
RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded Open

bug help wanted

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4532 · 9 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 8, 2025
Update default values for explicit histogram bucket boundaries to better handle seconds Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4527 · Opened Apr 4, 2025
OTLP HTTP Exporter Should Parse response based on content-type header Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4526 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 2, 2025
opentelemetry.trace.TracerProvider ABC does not include the add_span_processor method Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4489 · 5 reactions · Opened Mar 17, 2025
High Latency When Using Nginx Ingress with OTel Collector over HTTP Open

question

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4488 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 17, 2025
Update typing to follow pyright Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4479 · Opened Mar 12, 2025
Determine whether OTEL_LOG_LEVEL or OTEL_PYTHON_LOG_LEVEL should be used for the log handler or only internal sdk logs. Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4478 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 12, 2025
ConcurrentMultiSpanProcessor: cannot schedule new futures after shutdown Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4461 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 5, 2025
Add Support for generating / refreshing Auth Header in auto instrumentation Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4459 · 12 comments · Opened Mar 4, 2025
Update typing style Open

Difficulty 4/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4457 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 28, 2025
FastAPI instrumentation - Invalid TraceID/SpanID propagation, even with right traceparent information Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4440 · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 19, 2025
Allow passing a non-SDK `LoggerProvider` to the SDK `EventLoggerProvider` Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4439 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 18, 2025
Spans not recorded by default if context is propagated Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4430 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 14, 2025
[Problem] Logging integration with opentelemetry auto instrumentation Open

feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4427 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 13, 2025
Provide hooks to modify span content before conversion into ReadableSpan Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4424 · 1 comment · 5 reactions · Opened Feb 12, 2025
Handle `extra` attributes of unknown classes Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4421 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 7, 2025
Using deprecated code.filepath Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4417 · Opened Feb 5, 2025
Automatically add `/v1/metrics` to endpoints Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4412 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 4, 2025
Allow None values in OTLP exporter log attributes Open

exporters logging

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4405 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 31, 2025
Invalid type _FixedFindCallerLogger for attribute '_logger' value. Expected one of ['bool', 'str', 'bytes', 'int', 'float'] or a sequence of those types Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4401 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 29, 2025
Make it possible to disable specific signals when using auto-instrumentation Open

auto-instrumentation feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4395 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 23, 2025
Improve error logging for OTLP gRPC exporter Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4393 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 22, 2025
Is it possible to use opentelemetry as downstream of an old system using zipkin? Open

question

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4387 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 15, 2025
Deprecate `exception.escaped` span attribute Open

blocked by spec semantic-convention specification

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4384 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 13, 2025
Creating Exponential Histograms Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4383 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 9, 2025
Parent IDs are null for spawned spans with gevent auto-instrumentation Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4379 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 6, 2025
When the random seed is set, it causes duplicate traceId and spanId. Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4376 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 3, 2025
Implement higher precision clock than time_ns Open

enhancement sdk

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4367 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 19, 2024
Parsing console output json objects into ReadableSpan objects Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4357 · Opened Dec 14, 2024
Deadlock accessing metric reader storage when running under Flask/Gunicorn with gevent workers Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4345 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 10, 2024
BatchLogRecordProcessor emit implementation drops the logs when the queue is full Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4336 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 1, 2024
logs: `Overriding of current EventLoggerProvider is not allowed` Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4335 · 11 comments · Opened Nov 30, 2024
CORE/CONTRIB_REPO_SHA should point to an actual SHA instead of main Open

build & infra enhancement

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4305 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 22, 2024
Allow Callback Management for Observable Instruments Open

feature-request

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4304 · Opened Nov 22, 2024
Split timeout to read and connect timeouts in the exporters Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4303 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 21, 2024

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