The Rust OpenTelemetry implementation.

OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs used to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) for analysis in order to understand your software's performance and behavior. You can export and analyze them using Prometheus, Jaeger, and other observability tools.

Compiler support: requires rustc 1.65+

*OpenTelemetry Rust is not introducing a new end user callable Logging API. Instead, it provides Logs Bridge API, that allows one to write log appenders that can bridge existing logging libraries to the OpenTelemetry log data model. The following log appenders are available:

• opentelemetry-appender-log
• opentelemetry-appender-tracing

If you already use the logging APIs from above, continue to use them, and use the appenders above to bridge the logs to OpenTelemetry. If you are using a library not listed here, feel free to contribute a new appender for the same.

If you are starting fresh, then consider using tracing as your logging API. It supports structured logging and is actively maintained.

Project versioning information and stability guarantees can be found here.

use opentelemetry::{
    global,
    trace::{Tracer, TracerProvider as _},
};
use opentelemetry_sdk::trace::TracerProvider;

fn main() {
    // Create a new trace pipeline that prints to stdout
    let provider = TracerProvider::builder()
        .with_simple_exporter(opentelemetry_stdout::SpanExporter::default())
        .build();
    let tracer = provider.tracer("readme_example");

    tracer.in_span("doing_work", |cx| {
        // Traced app logic here...
    });

    // Shutdown trace pipeline
    global::shutdown_tracer_provider();
}

The example above requires the following packages:

# Cargo.toml
[dependencies]
opentelemetry = "0.22"
opentelemetry_sdk = "0.22"
opentelemetry-stdout = { version = "0.3", features = ["trace"] }

See the examples directory for different integration patterns.

The following crates are maintained in this repo:

• opentelemetry This is the OpenTelemetry API crate, and is the crate required to instrument libraries and applications. It contains Context API, Baggage API, Propagators API, Logging Bridge API, Metrics API, and Tracing API.
• opentelemetry-sdk This is the OpenTelemetry SDK crate, and contains the official OpenTelemetry SDK implementation. It contains Logging SDK, Metrics SDK, and Tracing SDK. It also contains propagator implementations.
• opentelemetry-otlp - exporter to send telemetry (logs, metrics and traces) in the OTLP format to an endpoint accepting OTLP. This could be the OTel Collector, telemetry backends like Jaeger, Prometheus or vendor specific endpoints.
• opentelemetry-stdout exporter for sending logs, metrics and traces to stdout, for learning/debugging purposes.
• opentelemetry-http This crate contains utility functions to help with exporting telemetry, propagation, over http.
• opentelemetry-appender-log This crate provides logging appender to route logs emitted using the log crate to opentelemetry.
• opentelemetry-appender-tracing This crate provides logging appender to route logs emitted using the tracing crate to opentelemetry.
• opentelemetry-jaeger-propagator provides context propagation using jaeger propagation format.
• opentelemetry-prometheus provides a pipeline and exporter for sending metrics to Prometheus.
• opentelemetry-semantic-conventions provides standard names and semantic otel conventions.
• opentelemetry-zipkin provides a pipeline and exporter for sending traces to Zipkin.

In addition, there are several other useful crates in the OTel Rust Contrib repo. A lot of crates maintained outside OpenTelemetry owned repos can be found in the OpenTelemetry Registry.

OpenTelemetry is built against the latest stable release. The minimum supported version is 1.64. The current OpenTelemetry version is not guaranteed to build on Rust versions earlier than the minimum supported version.

The current stable Rust compiler and the three most recent minor versions before it will always be supported. For example, if the current stable compiler version is 1.49, the minimum supported version will not be increased past 1.46, three minor versions prior. Increasing the minimum supported compiler version is not considered a semver breaking change as long as doing so complies with this policy.

See the contributing file.

The Rust special interest group (SIG) meets weekly on Tuesdays at 9 AM Pacific Time. The meeting is subject to change depending on contributors' availability. Check the OpenTelemetry community calendar for specific dates and for Zoom meeting links. "OTel Rust SIG" is the name of meeting for this group.

Meeting notes are available as a public Google doc. If you have trouble accessing the doc, please get in touch on Slack.

The meeting is open for all to join. We invite everyone to join our meeting, regardless of your experience level. Whether you're a seasoned OpenTelemetry developer, just starting your journey, or simply curious about the work we do, you're more than welcome to participate!

For GitHub groups see the code owners file.

• Cijo Thomas
• Harold Dost
• Julian Tescher
• Zhongyang Wu

• Lalit Kumar Bhasin
• Shaun Cox

• Dirkjan Ochtman
• Jan Kühle
• Isobel Redelmeier
• Mike Goldsmith