🆚 OpenTelemetry vs. Trace Context

📈 Trace Context is much more popular than OpenTelemetry.
🌍 Trace Context is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

OpenTelemetry

Trace Context

Type

Standard

About

OpenTelemetry is an open-source, vendor-neutral observability framework and toolkit for collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs.

It provides standardized APIs, SDKs, and instrumentation libraries for multiple programming languages, includes the OpenTelemetry Collector for receiving and routing telemetry data, supports automatic and manual instrumentation, and integrates with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Jaeger, Grafana, Datadog, and New Relic.

The Trace Context specification defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

opentelemetry.io #20,933

w3.org #12,884

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Trace Context is 45 times more popular than OpenTelemetry.

Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Trace Context is more popular than OpenTelemetry in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Netherlands

Australia

France

Germany

Canada

Brazil

Japan

Italy

Awards

⬆️ 38th most popular in the Netherlands in the Standards category.
⬆️ 39th most popular in Australia in the Standards category.
⬆️ 40th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Standards category.
⬆️ 43rd most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
⬆️ 43rd most popular in France in the Standards category.

⭐ 6th most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Standards category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Ecuador in the Standards category.
🔥 15th most popular in Qatar in the Standards category.
🔥 16th most popular in Australia in the Standards category.
🔥 16th most popular in Belgium in the Standards category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Trace Context is more popular than OpenTelemetry in all market segments.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Health

Fashion/Beauty

Entertainment

Travel

Sports

Internet Services

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#148

#322

#523

#4,772

#5,479

Name

Rank

#75

#86

#120

#132

#139