OpenTelemetry
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.
According to our data, OpenTelemetry ranks 44th among the standards we track.
It is detected on 0.03% of all websites.
- π Website
- π·οΈ Previous names
- OpenTracing, OpenCensus
- π¨βπ©βπ¦βπ¦ Community
π Rankings and Market Share
- Standards
- Rank: 44
- Market share: 0.03%
π OpenTelemetry Awards
- β¬οΈ 41st most popular in the United Kingdom in the Standards category.
- β¬οΈ 43rd most popular in France in the Standards category.
- β¬οΈ 44th most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
β‘ Sites Using OpenTelemetry
We have data on 1,240 websites that use OpenTelemetry. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using OpenTelemetry is mercadolivre.com.br.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #148 | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese | |
| 2 | #158 | United States | American English | |
| 3 | #318 | Argentina | Mexican Spanish | |
| 4 | mercadolibre.com.ar |
#327 | Uruguay | Spanish |
| 5 | #548 | Poland | Polish | |
| 6 | #759 | Iran | Persian | |
| 7 | #1,642 | Chile | Spanish | |
| 8 | #1,983 | Argentina | Spanish | |
| 9 | #2,369 | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese | |
| 10 | mercadopago.com.ar |
#2,521 | Uruguay | Spanish |
| 11 | #3,820 | Venezuela | Spanish | |
| 12 | United States | English | ||
| 13 | #4,048 | Belarus | Russian | |
| 14 | #6,178 | Uruguay | Spanish | |
| 15 | #6,814 | Argentina | Mexican Spanish | |
| 16 | #7,474 | English | ||
| 17 | #8,356 | Portuguese | ||
| 18 | #8,467 | Romania | Romanian | |
| 19 | #8,693 | Germany | American English | |
| 20 | #8,882 | Argentina | Spanish |
π Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use OpenTelemetry:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using OpenTelemetry are from the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
- United States 24.9%
- United Kingdom 9.9%
- France 5.6%
- Netherlands 5.4%
- Germany 5.3%
- Australia 4.3%
- Canada 4%
- Sweden 3.2%
- Israel 3%
- Other 34.4%
Most OpenTelemetry users speak English, Spanish, or French.
- English 67.1%
- Spanish 4.1%
- French 4.1%
- German 4%
- Dutch 4%
- Portuguese 2.7%
- Swedish 2.3%
- Italian 2.2%
- Hebrew 1.6%
- Other 7.9%
OpenTelemetry is especially popular on .com and .org top-level domains.
- .com 46.7%
- .org 8.5%
- .nl 3%
- .co.uk 2.7%
- .de 2.3%
- .se 2.2%
- .ca 1.9%
- .com.br 1.7%
- .no 1.5%
- Other 29.5%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing OpenTelemetry include business, marketing and merchandising, and Internet services.
- Business 19%
- Marketing/Merchandising 10.6%
- Internet Services 8.1%
- Public Information 7%
- Online Shopping 6.5%
- Sports 6%
- Entertainment 4.6%
- Education/Reference 3.5%
- Software/Hardware 3.3%
- Other 31.4%
π΅οΈ Similar Technologies
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π¬ Frequently Asked Questions
What is the company behind OpenTelemetry?
OpenTelemetry is owned by the Linux Foundation, headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Which country uses OpenTelemetry the most?
The majority of OpenTelemetry users are from the United States.
Who uses OpenTelemetry?
According to our data, OpenTelemetry is used on over a thousand sites, including such established ones as mercadolivre.com.br,
yelp.com, and
mercadolibre.com.mx.
What are the alternatives to OpenTelemetry?
Alternatives and possible competitors to OpenTelemetry may include Trace Context,
CSS, and
HTML.
π See Also
ποΈ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 4,009,087 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.



