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This release is the last to support [Go 1.23]. The next release will require at least [Go 1.24]. ### Added - Add native histogram exemplar support in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus`. (#6772) - Add template attribute functions to the `go.opentelmetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.34.0` package. (#6939) - `ContainerLabel` - `DBOperationParameter` - `DBSystemParameter` - `HTTPRequestHeader` - `HTTPResponseHeader` - `K8SCronJobAnnotation` - `K8SCronJobLabel` - `K8SDaemonSetAnnotation` - `K8SDaemonSetLabel` - `K8SDeploymentAnnotation` - `K8SDeploymentLabel` - `K8SJobAnnotation` - `K8SJobLabel` - `K8SNamespaceAnnotation` - `K8SNamespaceLabel` - `K8SNodeAnnotation` - `K8SNodeLabel` - `K8SPodAnnotation` - `K8SPodLabel` - `K8SReplicaSetAnnotation` - `K8SReplicaSetLabel` - `K8SStatefulSetAnnotation` - `K8SStatefulSetLabel` - `ProcessEnvironmentVariable` - `RPCConnectRPCRequestMetadata` - `RPCConnectRPCResponseMetadata` - `RPCGRPCRequestMetadata` - `RPCGRPCResponseMetadata` - Add `ErrorType` attribute helper function to the `go.opentelmetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.34.0` package. (#6962) - Add `WithAllowKeyDuplication` in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log` which can be used to disable deduplication for log records. (#6968) - Add `WithCardinalityLimit` option to configure the cardinality limit in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric`. (#6996, #7065, #7081, #7164, #7165, #7179) - Add `Clone` method to `Record` in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log` that returns a copy of the record with no shared state. (#7001) - Add experimental self-observability span and batch span processor metrics in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace`. Check the `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace/internal/x` package documentation for more information. (#7027, #6393, #7209) - The `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.36.0` package. The package contains semantic conventions from the `v1.36.0` version of the OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions. See the [migration documentation](./semconv/v1.36.0/MIGRATION.md) for information on how to upgrade from `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.34.0.`(#7032, #7041) - Add support for configuring Prometheus name translation using `WithTranslationStrategy` option in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus`. The current default translation strategy when UTF-8 mode is enabled is `NoUTF8EscapingWithSuffixes`, but a future release will change the default strategy to `UnderscoreEscapingWithSuffixes` for compliance with the specification. (#7111) - Add experimental self-observability log metrics in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log`. Check the `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log/internal/x` package documentation for more information. (#7121) - Add experimental self-observability trace exporter metrics in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/stdout/stdouttrace`. Check the `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/stdout/stdouttrace/internal/x` package documentation for more information. (#7133) - Support testing of [Go 1.25]. (#7187) - The `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.37.0` package. The package contains semantic conventions from the `v1.37.0` version of the OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions. See the [migration documentation](./semconv/v1.37.0/MIGRATION.md) for information on how to upgrade from `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.36.0.`(#7254) ### Changed - Optimize `TraceIDFromHex` and `SpanIDFromHex` in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace`. (#6791) - Change `AssertEqual` in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log/logtest` to accept `TestingT` in order to support benchmarks and fuzz tests. (#6908) - Change `DefaultExemplarReservoirProviderSelector` in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric` to use `runtime.GOMAXPROCS(0)` instead of `runtime.NumCPU()` for the `FixedSizeReservoirProvider` default size. (#7094) ### Fixed - `SetBody` method of `Record` in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log` now deduplicates key-value collections (`log.Value` of `log.KindMap` from `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log`). (#7002) - Fix `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus` to not append a suffix if it's already present in metric name. (#7088) - Fix the `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/stdout/stdouttrace` self-observability component type and name. (#7195) - Fix partial export count metric in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/stdout/stdouttrace`. (#7199) ### Deprecated - Deprecate `WithoutUnits` and `WithoutCounterSuffixes` options, preferring `WithTranslationStrategy` instead. (#7111) - Deprecate support for `OTEL_GO_X_CARDINALITY_LIMIT` environment variable in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric`. Use `WithCardinalityLimit` option instead. (#7166)
OpenTelemetry-Go
OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. It provides a set of APIs to directly measure performance and behavior of your software and send this data to observability platforms.
Project Status
| Signal | Status |
|---|---|
| Traces | Stable |
| Metrics | Stable |
| Logs | Beta1 |
Progress and status specific to this repository is tracked in our project boards and milestones.
Project versioning information and stability guarantees can be found in the versioning documentation.
Compatibility
OpenTelemetry-Go ensures compatibility with the current supported versions of the Go language:
Each major Go release is supported until there are two newer major releases. For example, Go 1.5 was supported until the Go 1.7 release, and Go 1.6 was supported until the Go 1.8 release.
For versions of Go that are no longer supported upstream, opentelemetry-go will stop ensuring compatibility with these versions in the following manner:
- A minor release of opentelemetry-go will be made to add support for the new supported release of Go.
- The following minor release of opentelemetry-go will remove compatibility testing for the oldest (now archived upstream) version of Go. This, and future, releases of opentelemetry-go may include features only supported by the currently supported versions of Go.
Currently, this project supports the following environments.
| OS | Go Version | Architecture |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | 1.25 | amd64 |
| Ubuntu | 1.24 | amd64 |
| Ubuntu | 1.23 | amd64 |
| Ubuntu | 1.25 | 386 |
| Ubuntu | 1.24 | 386 |
| Ubuntu | 1.23 | 386 |
| Ubuntu | 1.25 | arm64 |
| Ubuntu | 1.24 | arm64 |
| Ubuntu | 1.23 | arm64 |
| macOS 13 | 1.25 | amd64 |
| macOS 13 | 1.24 | amd64 |
| macOS 13 | 1.23 | amd64 |
| macOS | 1.25 | arm64 |
| macOS | 1.24 | arm64 |
| macOS | 1.23 | arm64 |
| Windows | 1.25 | amd64 |
| Windows | 1.24 | amd64 |
| Windows | 1.23 | amd64 |
| Windows | 1.25 | 386 |
| Windows | 1.24 | 386 |
| Windows | 1.23 | 386 |
While this project should work for other systems, no compatibility guarantees are made for those systems currently.
Getting Started
You can find a getting started guide on opentelemetry.io.
OpenTelemetry's goal is to provide a single set of APIs to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application and send them to an observability platform. This project allows you to do just that for applications written in Go. There are two steps to this process: instrument your application, and configure an exporter.
Instrumentation
To start capturing distributed traces and metric events from your application it first needs to be instrumented. The easiest way to do this is by using an instrumentation library for your code. Be sure to check out the officially supported instrumentation libraries.
If you need to extend the telemetry an instrumentation library provides or want to build your own instrumentation for your application directly you will need to use the Go otel package. The examples are a good way to see some practical uses of this process.
Export
Now that your application is instrumented to collect telemetry, it needs an export pipeline to send that telemetry to an observability platform.
All officially supported exporters for the OpenTelemetry project are contained in the exporters directory.
| Exporter | Logs | Metrics | Traces |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTLP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Prometheus | ✓ | ||
| stdout | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Zipkin | ✓ |
Contributing
See the contributing documentation.