open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python

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

opentelemetry-configuration: add support for the OTLP exporter TLS configuration Open

feature-request

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5670 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 17, 2026
[bug] View initialization fails to detect character pattern wildcards ('[', ']') in instrument_name when name is set Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 90/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5664 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Flaky BatchProcessor shutdown test fails on Windows/PyPy Open

bug tests

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5663 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Span.set_status: a bare Status(ERROR) replaces an existing Status(ERROR, description) and drops the description Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5661 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
[bug] PeriodicExportingMetricReader missing validation for export_timeout_millis <= 0 Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5655 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Add host.id resource attribute detector Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5652 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
OTLP gRPC internal metrics report a server.port the exporter does not use, and none at all for a scheme-less endpoint Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5651 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 10, 2026
[bug] BatchSpanProcessor missing validation for export_timeout_millis <= 0 Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5648 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Nothing detects a test that leaks a PeriodicExportingMetricReader ticker thread, and four tests leak one today Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5640 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Tests in test_metric_reader_storage.py assert on process-global mock state instead of on the storage under test Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5638 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Default-view fallback stream is never checked for conflicting metric identities (warning is order-dependent) Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5629 · Opened Sep 5, 2026
View identity-conflict warning never fires when the conflicting views match the same instrument Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5627 · Opened Sep 5, 2026
`SpanProcessor.on_end` exceptions escape cleanup and replace application exceptions Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5624 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
opentelemetry-sdk: stop coercing instrumentation options once instrumentors read ConfigProvider Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5619 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
first issue Open

feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5617 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Span is already immutable during OnEnding span processor callbacks, violating the spec Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5614 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Unguarded str()/repr() calls crash the app when an attribute key/value's __str__/__repr__ raises Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5597 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Samplers never receive the parent's tracestate, and the composite sampler erases it Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5578 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 23, 2026
PeriodicExportingMetricReader discards its shutdown timeout Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5574 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 23, 2026
record_min_max=False exports histogram min=+Infinity and max=-Infinity Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5570 · Opened Aug 23, 2026
Concurrent multi-processors never flush at interpreter exit Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5568 · Opened Aug 23, 2026
W3C Baggage propagator uses form encoding instead of percent encoding Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5566 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 23, 2026
Self-referential attribute value crashes the instrumented application with RecursionError Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5564 · Opened Aug 23, 2026
Flaky sdk test on pypy Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5553 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Pull Request Dashboard Open

dashboard

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5550 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Blocked resource detector can wedge forked children: get_aggregated_resources timeout does not bound the wait Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5533 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 10, 2026
WeaverLiveCheck improvements Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5526 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 8, 2026
Logs Enabled: implement Development-status conditions (minimum_severity, trace_based) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5525 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Public API for setting logger/tracer configuration programmatically Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5524 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Instrumentation Configuration API (ConfigProvider / ConfigProperties) is not implemented Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5485 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
Dependency Dashboard Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5482 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
metrics: support exclude list for metric attribute keys for Views Open

feature-request

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5446 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 20, 2026
metrics: support 'attributes' Instrument advisory parameter Open

feature-request metrics

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5443 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 20, 2026
BoundedAttributes: _clean_extended_attribute returns None for both invalid input and valid AnyValue(None), causing invalid attributes to be written instead of dropped Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5432 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 18, 2026
Make logging API/SDK timeouts uniform before release Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5403 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 10, 2026
Review opentelemetry-configuration dependency choices before 1.0 Open

config

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5392 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 6, 2026
opentelemetry-configuration: add support for the OTLP JSON exporter to declarative configuration Open

feature-request

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5391 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 5, 2026
Proposal for a new process to submit PRs Open

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5385 · 12 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 2, 2026
Claude Issue Review Open

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5373 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 30, 2026
Failed to export traces Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5367 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 29, 2026
Logging stability review: [minor] LogRecord attribute limits not configurable via `LoggerProvider` Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5357 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 25, 2026
feat(config): honour OTEL_PYTHON_* extensions when OTEL_CONFIG_FILE is set Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5352 · Opened Jun 25, 2026
Discuss using AI to help in the review process of issues and PRs Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5343 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Support for exclude list is missing in attributes Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5331 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 19, 2026
Deprecation plan for OTel Python OpenCensus support Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5325 · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 18, 2026
feat(config): add docker-tests e2e for OTEL_CONFIG_FILE plumbing Open

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5318 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 17, 2026
Minor follow-up work after adding extended attributes as the default everywhere Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5304 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 15, 2026
Support Otlp Profiling Open

feature-request

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5291 · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 11, 2026
refactor(config): review additional_properties typing for stricter type checks Open

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5268 · Opened Jun 2, 2026
Issues with OTLP exporter with None values Open

bug

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

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5211 · 5 comments · Opened May 15, 2026

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