OpenTelemetry
Standard APIs and SDKs for distributed tracing and observability.
Logging, monitoring and analytics npm Apache-2.0
Used in agent projects
78
0.6% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in logging, monitoring and analytics
#12 of 29
by use in those projects
Downloads
91.6M
npm, last 7 days, @opentelemetry/api
GitHub stars
3,489
last push Oct 10, 2026
How OpenTelemetry is used
OpenTelemetry is a dependency in 78 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.6%), #12 of 29 in logging, monitoring and analytics. The most used alternative there is Vercel Analytics. Projects that use it most often also use Zod (70.5%), Vitest (56.4%), Playwright (JavaScript) (51.3%).
Often used with OpenTelemetry
| Zod | 70.5% of OpenTelemetry projects · 4.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| Vitest | 56.4% of OpenTelemetry projects · 4.6× more than average |
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 51.3% of OpenTelemetry projects · 5.8× more than average |
| tsx | 48.7% of OpenTelemetry projects · 4.9× more than average |
| TypeScript | 94.9% of OpenTelemetry projects · 1.7× more than average |
| Drizzle Kit | 38.5% of OpenTelemetry projects · 15.8× more than average |
| Drizzle ORM | 38.5% of OpenTelemetry projects · 15.1× more than average |
| dotenv | 48.7% of OpenTelemetry projects · 3.1× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 1.5% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 1.4% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 1.3% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 2.9% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 2.7% of projects set up for it |
| OpenCode | 1.6% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list OpenTelemetry as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install @opentelemetry/api |
|---|---|
| Packages counted | @opentelemetry/api, @opentelemetry/resources, @opentelemetry/sdk-node, @opentelemetry/semantic-conventions, @opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http, @opentelemetry/sdk-metrics, @opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base, @opentelemetry/api-logs |
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (43), Next.js (29), Rust (2), Python (2) |
| Example projects | apify/apify-mcp-server, ding113/claude-code-hub, crbnos/carbon, JMBeresford/retrom, nuxt/nuxt.com |
Alternatives to OpenTelemetry
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel Analytics npm Real-time web analytics SDK for tracking traffic and user behavior. |
422 (3.3%) | 8.3M | 517 | MIT |
| pino-pretty npm Pretty-printer for Pino JSON logs to make terminal output human-readable. |
223 (1.8%) | 24.6M | 1,706 | MIT |
| Web Vitals npm Measure Core Web Vitals and other key performance metrics in JavaScript. |
222 (1.7%) | 48.7M | 8,640 | Apache-2.0 |
| Vercel Speed Insights npm Measure web performance metrics and get recommendations for improvement. |
167 (1.3%) | 5.6M | 116 | Apache-2.0 |
| psutil pypi Cross-platform library for retrieving process and system monitoring information. |
144 (1.1%) | 74.7M | 11.3K | BSD-3-Clause |
| Pino npm Ultra-fast JSON logger for Node.js with minimal overhead. |
129 (1.0%) | 53.3M | 18.2K | MIT |
| Sentry for Next.js npm Official Sentry SDK for error tracking and performance monitoring in Next.js apps. |
119 (0.9%) | 11.7M | 8,756 | MIT |
| Loguru pypi Simplified Python logging library with intuitive API and structured logging. |
108 (0.9%) | 16.4M | 24.1K | — |