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OpenTelemetry Python API and SDK

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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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332 open issues indexed

Duplicate Span, sometimes Open

bug

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3275 · 14 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2023
Use an event loop to coordinate async SDK work Open

feature-request logging metrics sdk tracing

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3274 · 5 reactions · Opened Apr 20, 2023
Support for async exporters Open

feature-request metrics sdk tracing

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3273 · 2 comments · 19 reactions · Opened Apr 20, 2023
Support async callbacks for asynchronous instruments Open

feature-request metrics

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3272 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 20, 2023
Add async context manager for starting a span Open

feature-request tracing

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3271 · 2 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Apr 20, 2023
Getting exception while using PeriodicExportingMetricReader from export library Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3246 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 3, 2023
Enhance exponential histogram tests Open

tests

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3219 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 15, 2023
Metric naming conventions reasoning Open

bug metrics

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3207 · 8 comments · Opened Mar 1, 2023
Measure number of dropped spans in `BatchSpanProcessor` Open

feature-request

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3152 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 31, 2023
(sdk/tracing): batch span process eager exporting Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3131 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 14, 2023
OTLP/HTTP exporter should honour the spec retry status codes Open

exporters help wanted specification

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3122 · Opened Jan 8, 2023
Generate default endpoint for metric, trace in grpc Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3103 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 29, 2022
Define a way to indicate non-end-user available symbols and private class symbols Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3097 · Opened Dec 19, 2022
Prometheus exporter handles instrumentation scope and prevents collisions Open

exporters feature-request help wanted prometheus

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3072 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 2, 2022
Wrong sdk version requirement for grpc exporter Open

bug

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3051 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 25, 2022
[TC Review] Some Metric View Conflict error messages are missing Open

bug metrics

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3043 · Opened Nov 17, 2022
Explore Custom Sampler injection via Entry Points for Manual Instrumentation Open

feature-request

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3032 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 10, 2022
Provide configuration to include more log required attributes Open

feature-request logging

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3018 · Opened Nov 3, 2022
Implement general mechanism to handle signal-specific environment variables Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#3005 · Opened Oct 31, 2022
Add all environment variable values defined in the spec to the environment variables modules Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2994 · Opened Oct 27, 2022
Add benchmarks for aggregators Open

tests

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2951 · Opened Sep 27, 2022
Provide versioned semantic conventions with sub-package/folder Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2946 · 19 comments · Opened Sep 23, 2022
TC review of Metrics implementation vs spec matrix Open

metrics

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2889 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 24, 2022
Seems like pylint is not being executed on some files Open

bug build & infra

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2887 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 23, 2022
Handle partial success responses from OTLP export services Open

exporters feature-request

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2882 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 19, 2022
Add a docstring to outline metric reader and view configuration conflicts Open

doc metrics

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2834 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 19, 2022
Creating named `View` with only `instrument_type` does not raise error Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2815 · Opened Jul 12, 2022
Update opentelemetry.io docs for auto instrumentation once ready Open

doc metrics

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2798 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 1, 2022
Fork process models for metric batch reader do not work Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2767 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 16, 2022
Run tests in random order Open

bug tests

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2760 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 13, 2022
Histogram timer context manager Open

feature-request metrics

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2756 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 11, 2022
Mechanism to configure views with opentelemetry-instrument Open

auto-instrumentation metrics

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2751 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 9, 2022
Auto-instrumentation honouring the `OTEL_PYTHON_X_PROVIDER` env-vars Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2744 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 7, 2022
Basic protection against the unintended cardinality explosion or similar problems Open

feature-request metrics sdk

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2700 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened May 18, 2022
C++/python interoperability Open

feature-request

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2691 · 4 comments · Opened May 16, 2022
Populate schema url for Resources based on the semantic conventions version Open

good first issue help wanted sdk specification

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2688 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 14, 2022
Fragile reporting for poorly implemented exceptions Open

bug

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2683 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened May 13, 2022
Documentation request - python opentelemetry-propagator-b3 Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2667 · 4 comments · Opened May 6, 2022
Clients requests with partial set of B3 propagation headers causes crash Open

bug propagators

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2629 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 20, 2022
Runtime context fails to detach token Open

bug

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2606 · 38 comments · 18 reactions · Opened Apr 15, 2022
Raise Failure or Timeout in tracing and logs Open

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2600 · Opened Apr 13, 2022
Honour path specified in grpc endpoint Open

bug

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2579 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 31, 2022
Metric exporters should report and error condition... Open

metrics sdk

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2562 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 24, 2022
A View should pass through the data by reporting both Metric objects Open

metrics sdk

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2560 · Opened Mar 24, 2022
Print view recipe Open

metrics sdk

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2559 · Opened Mar 24, 2022
View should avoid warning if conflict involves multiple description properties Open

metrics sdk

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2558 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 24, 2022
Stable release of opentracing shim Open

feature-request help wanted

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2486 · Opened Feb 26, 2022
API sets tracecontext, baggage as default global propagators Open

bug

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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2463 · Opened Feb 16, 2022
Support multi-instrument observable callbacks and ability to unregister callbacks Open

api discussion metrics sdk

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2454 · 11 comments · Opened Feb 9, 2022
Current context is empty with baggage.get_all Open

api doc good first issue help wanted

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#2432 · 7 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Feb 1, 2022

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