OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter
Export observability telemetry to OpenTelemetry Collector.
Logging, monitoring and analytics PyPI Apache-2.0
How OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter is used
OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter is a dependency in 16 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 193 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is Prometheus Client (60 projects). Projects that use it most often also use OpenTelemetry SDK (94.8%), OpenTelemetry API (82.9%), Pydantic (81.9%).
OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter popularity over time
Gid Score 62: downloads 88, use in agent projects 60, GitHub stars 28, downloads trend 56 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter
| OpenTelemetry SDK | 94.8% of OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter projects · 101.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| OpenTelemetry API | 82.9% of OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter projects · 91.9× more than average |
| Pydantic | 81.9% of OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter projects · 9.5× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 80.8% of OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter projects · 8.8× more than average |
| OpenAI Python Library | 77.2% of OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter projects · 19.6× more than average |
| NumPy | 72.0% of OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter projects · 12.4× more than average |
| FastAPI | 70.5% of OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter projects · 9.4× more than average |
| Requests | 69.4% of OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter projects · 10.2× more than average |
From all 193 projects in our scan that use OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install opentelemetry-exporter-otlp |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (192), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | Mirix-AI/MIRIX, aihes/LangChain-Tutorials-and-Examples, camel-ai/seta, Hoanganhvu123/ShoppingGPT, lwyBZss8924d/DeepSearchAgents |
Alternatives to OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prometheus Client pypi Python client library for instrumenting applications with Prometheus metrics. |
70 | 60 (3.7%) | 36.7M | 4,384 | Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause |
| OpenTelemetry OTLP gRPC Exporter pypi Export OpenTelemetry observability data via Protobuf over gRPC. |
66 | 24 (1.5%) | 27.2M | 2,681 | Apache-2.0 |
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