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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

BatchSpanProcessor: issue to service which creates subprocess frequently when monkeypatched by gevent Open

bug

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4298 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 19, 2024
sdk/metrics: Set timestamp instead using now Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4296 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 18, 2024
Add an environment variable for overriding gRPC default authority Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4278 · Opened Nov 14, 2024
Create requirements file for eachdist.py dependencies like toml Open

build & infra dependencies

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4277 · Opened Nov 14, 2024
Use matching branch names for Prs created from prepare release workflow Open

build & infra feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4275 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 13, 2024
infra: evaluate toml dependency in eachdist scripts Open

build & infra

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4267 · Opened Nov 8, 2024
infra: reduce toil of manually sync workflows between contrib and core (generate-workflows-lib) Open

build & infra discussion

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4263 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 8, 2024
Exception handling for exporter connection errors / exceptions in general Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4252 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 6, 2024
sdk/metrics: performance impact of exemplars support even when configured as `always_off` Open

metrics sdk

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4243 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 31, 2024
infra: update eachdist python script to use ruff Open

build & infra

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4231 · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 21, 2024
Allow providing a "MetricProcessor", similar to a SpanProcessor Open

feature-request metrics sdk

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4230 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 21, 2024
[prometheus-exporter] Export Gauge exemplars Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4228 · Opened Oct 16, 2024
Remove Protobuf runtime dependency from OTLP exporter Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4226 · 9 comments · 11 reactions · Opened Oct 15, 2024
Failed to resolve this package in environment where pre-releases are not allowed. Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4219 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 10, 2024
opentelemetry python sdk does not work well under fork Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4215 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 9, 2024
Missing step to setup virtual env in CONTRIBUTING.md Open

feature-request

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4212 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 5, 2024
OpenTelemetry Spans exported during async code execution yield varying number of spans when asserting in pytest Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4210 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 3, 2024
can you attach a LogRecordProcessor to default logger provider? Open

feature-request logging

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4201 · Opened Sep 25, 2024
Examples in Django doc doesn't work out of the box Open

bug doc

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4197 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 18, 2024
Debugging - InMemoryMetricReader: MetricsTimeoutError('Timed out while flushing metric readers') Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4196 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2024
Time units are underdocumented in the API Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4193 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 17, 2024
Importing `opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter.OTLPSpanExporter` is slow Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4171 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 31, 2024
Implement Entities SDK Open

feature-request

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4161 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 28, 2024
OpenTracing Shim not converting exceptions to format expected by OpenTelemetry Open

bug

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4152 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 27, 2024
Support for gauge/callback shutdown in python Open

feature-request metrics

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4120 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 13, 2024
Clean up and update docs folder Open

doc

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4082 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 25, 2024
Synchronize OpenTelemetry Python code examples between otel-python and otel.io Open

doc

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4081 · Opened Jul 25, 2024
Test our doc: getting_started folder Open

doc

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4078 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 23, 2024
Unit tests break in case service (e.g Jaeger) listens on ::1:4137 Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4062 · Opened Jul 16, 2024
Allow configuration of inner SDK `Logger` using `LoggingHandler` Open

feature-request logging sdk

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4060 · 9 comments · Opened Jul 15, 2024
Current handling of OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TIMEOUT is not in line with spec Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4044 · 24 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 11, 2024
pytest with `--log-cli-level=DEBUG` causes opentelemetry to fail Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#4024 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 4, 2024
trace.get_current_span doesn't provide active span under test Open

question

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3999 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 26, 2024
PeriodicMetricExporter does not export periodically for either Delta or Cumulative temporality ExponentialHistogram Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3971 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 14, 2024
Revise skipped tests with pypy on windows after bumping pypy Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3967 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 13, 2024
Histogram metrics are much larger in v1.23.0 Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3959 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 7, 2024
Consolidate eachdist logic between core and contrib Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3950 · Opened Jun 4, 2024
Prometheus exporter should handle metric label key collisions Open

bug exporters prometheus

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3928 · 2 comments · Opened May 23, 2024
Logged exception "Failed to detach context" when testing Flask app Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3919 · 10 comments · 8 reactions · Opened May 17, 2024
Confusing and delayed error "TypeError: bad argument type for built-in operation" when span name is not a string Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3918 · 6 comments · Opened May 14, 2024
Enable ProcessResourceDetector by default Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3916 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 10, 2024
Callback on context change Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3915 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 10, 2024
Separate `tox.ini` into multiple files Open

build & infra

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3894 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 30, 2024
Investigate better ways to specify test dependencies Open

build & infra

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3892 · Opened Apr 30, 2024
Move eachdist.py actions into noxfile.py Open

build & infra

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3891 · Opened Apr 30, 2024
Use python scripts Open

build & infra

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3890 · Opened Apr 30, 2024
Use nox Open

build & infra

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3889 · Opened Apr 30, 2024
Improve our testing infrastructure Open

build & infra

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3888 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 30, 2024
OtelBatchSpanProcessor threading KeyError Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3884 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 26, 2024
Many security issues are being reported against test/development requirements files Open

build & infra

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3873 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 23, 2024

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