Is opentelemetry-ruby free to use?

opentelemetry-ruby is open source under the Apache-2.0 licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does opentelemetry-ruby do?

OpenTelemetry Ruby API & SDK, and related gems

What is opentelemetry-ruby written in?

opentelemetry-ruby is primarily written in Ruby. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ruby, and it has 606 GitHub stars.

opentelemetry-ruby: Open Source Monitoring & Observability

opentelemetry-ruby is a free, open source monitoring & observability project written in Ruby and released under Apache-2.0. It has 606 GitHub stars, 301 forks and 144 open issues, and was last pushed 18 hours ago. On this registry it ranks #256 of 271 tracked projects in Monitoring & Observability, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available.

OpenTelemetry Ruby

The Ruby OpenTelemetry client.

Contributing

We'd love your help! Use tags good first issue and help wanted to get started with the project.

Please review the contribution instructions for important information on setting up your environment, running the tests, and opening pull requests.

The Ruby special interest group (SIG) meets regularly. See the OpenTelemetry community page repo for information on this and other language SIGs.

Maintainers

Daniel Azuma, Google
Francis Bogsanyi, Shopify
Kayla Reopelle, New Relic
Matthew Wear, Dash0
Robert Laurin, Shopify

For more information about the maintainer role, see the community repository.

Approvers

Robb Kidd, Honeycomb
Xuan Cao, Solarwinds

For more information about the approver role, see the community repository.

Emeritus

Andrew Hayworth, Approver
Ariel Valentin, Approver
Eric Mustin, Approver
Sam Handler, Approver

For more information about the emeritus role, see the community repository.

Thanks to all the people who have contributed

Contrib Repository

The opentelemetry-ruby-contrib repository contains instrumentation libraries for many popular Ruby gems, including Rails, Rack, Sinatra, and others, so you can start using OpenTelemetry with minimal changes to your application. See the contrib README for more details.

Versioning

OpenTelemetry Ruby follows the versioning and stability document in the OpenTelemetry specification. Notably, we adhere to the outlined version numbering exception, which states that experimental signals may have a 0.x version number.

Compatibility

OpenTelemetry Ruby ensures compatibility with the current supported versions of the Ruby language.

Useful links

For more information on OpenTelemetry, visit:
For help or feedback on this project, join us in GitHub Discussions.
For more examples, check SDK example.

License

Apache 2.0 - See LICENSE for more information.