OpenTelemetry Java Contrib
May 5, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
This project is intended to provide helpful libraries and standalone OpenTelemetry-based utilities that don't fit the express scope of the OpenTelemetry Java or Java Instrumentation projects. If you need an easier way to bring observability to remote JVM-based applications and workflows that isn't easily satisfied by an SDK feature or via instrumentation, this project is hopefully for you.
Provided Libraries
| Status* | Library |
|---|---|
| beta | AWS Resources |
| stable | AWS X-Ray SDK Support |
| alpha | AWS X-Ray Propagator |
| alpha | Baggage Processors |
| alpha | zstd Compressor |
| alpha | CEL-Based Sampler |
| alpha | Consistent Sampling |
| alpha | Disk Buffering |
| alpha | GCP Authentication Extension |
| beta | GCP Resources |
| beta | Inferred Spans |
| alpha | IBM MQ Metrics |
| alpha | JFR Connection |
| alpha | JFR Events |
| alpha | JMX Metric Gatherer |
| alpha | JMX Metric Scraper |
| alpha | Kafka Support |
| alpha | OpenTelemetry Maven Extension |
| alpha | Micrometer MeterProvider |
| alpha | No-Op API |
| alpha | Intercept and Process Signals Globally |
| alpha | Prometheus Client Bridge |
| alpha | Resource Providers |
| alpha | Runtime Attach |
| alpha | Samplers |
| beta | Span Stacktrace Capture |
* alpha, beta and stable are currently used to denote library status per otep 0232.
To reach stable status, the library needs to have stable APIs, stable semantic conventions, and be production ready.
On reaching stable status, the otel.stable value in gradle.properties should be set to true.
Note that currently all the libraries are released together with the version of this repo, so breaking changes (after stable
status is reached) would bump the major version of all libraries together.
This could get complicated, so stable has a high bar.
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
Maintainers
- Jack Berg, Grafana Labs
- Jason Plumb, Splunk
- Jay DeLuca, Grafana Labs
- Lauri Tulmin, Splunk
- Trask Stalnaker, Microsoft
For more information about the maintainer role, see the community repository.
Approvers
- Gregor Zeitlinger, Grafana Labs
- John Watson, Sublime Security
For more information about the approver role, see the community repository.
Emeritus maintainers
For more information about the emeritus role, see the community repository.