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  A language-specific implementation of OpenTelemetry in Go.
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This is the OpenTelemetry for Go documentation. OpenTelemetry is an observability framework -- an API, SDK, and tools that are designed to aid in the generation and collection of application telemetry data such as metrics, logs, and traces. This documentation is designed to help you understand how to get started using OpenTelemetry for Go.

## Status and Releases

The current status of the major functional components for OpenTelemetry Go is as follows:

| Tracing | Metrics | Logging |
| ------- | ------- | ------- |
| Release Candidate    | Alpha   | Not Yet Implemented |

The current release can be found [here](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/releases)

## Further Reading

- [godoc](https://pkg.go.dev/go.opentelemetry.io/otel)
- [Examples](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/tree/main/example)
- [Contrib Repository](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib)