OpenTelemetry Python
The Python API and SDK for OTLP telemetry.
Specifications it implements
What this tool does to each specification, in the role vocabulary. Follow a standard through to standards.apievangelist.com for what it actually specifies.
| Standard | Role | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| OpenTelemetry / OTLP | instruments |
- Interfaces
librarycli- Install
-
pypi
opentelemetry-sdk - Emits
- otlp
- Runtime
- Runs offline Non-deterministic Read-only No credentials
Where it applies
Jobs this tool actually does, and the surface each one is exercised on.
Increasingly the substrate for LLM observability — OpenTelemetry's GenAI semantic conventions are where model calls, tokens and costs are being standardised.
- Website
- https://opentelemetry.io
- Repository
- https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python
- License
- Apache-2.0 — reported by the GitHub API, verified 2026-09-17
- Stars
- 2637 · last commit 2026-09-17
/tools.json,
against the tool.schema.json
schema, using the roles.json
vocabulary. Start at /llms.txt.