OpenTelemetry
The open standard for telemetry
- Also known as
- opentelemetry
What is OpenTelemetry?
An open source observability framework for cloud native software that provides APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from applications.
OpenTelemetry pricing
We don't have OpenTelemetry's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What OpenTelemetry does
The capabilities that matter for distributed tracing tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Trace role
- SaaS platform
- OpenTelemetry support
- OTel-native
- Multi-protocol (Jaeger + Zipkin + OTLP)
- ✓
- Trace search / filter by attributes
- -
- Service dependency graph
- -
- High-cardinality attribute exploration
- -
- Tail-based / dynamic sampling
- ✓
- Auto-instrumentation
- Agent-based
- Correlate traces with metrics/logs
- ✓
- Hosting
- Self-hosted only
- Storage backend
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- Web
- Android
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (2)
Independently observed- Jaeger
- Prometheus
OpenTelemetry alternatives
Other distributed tracing tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- SigNozThe Open Source Datadog Alternativelow · 37%
- UptraceOpenTelemetry-native observabilitylow · 48%
- JaegerOpen source, distributed tracing platformlow · 15%
- Grafana TempoScale tracing with minimal operational cost and less complexitylow · 46%
- OdigosAsk Production Anythinglow · 12%
- SigNozThe Open Source Datadog Alternativelow · 44%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for OpenTelemetry, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Package Downloads | 100 | 0.16 | 16.0 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 60 | 0.16 | 9.5 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 93 | 0.10 | 9.3 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 80 | 0.08 | 6.4 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 73 | 0.05 | 3.6 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.05 | 2.5 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 14 | 0.08 | 1.1 | ✓ |
| Docs Quality | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 0.16 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 0.10 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 72 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"self","trace_role":"platform","otel_support":"native","tail_sampling":true,"multi_protocol":true,"metrics_correlation":true,"auto_instrumentation":"agent"} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 2 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 95% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 13 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70% |
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |