# Go

> <img width="35" class="img-initial otel-icon" src="/img/logos/32x32/Golang_SDK.svg" alt="Go"> A language-specific implementation of OpenTelemetry in Go.

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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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Welcome to the OpenTelemetry Go documentation. This section introduces
how to use OpenTelemetry with Go to generate and collect telemetry data
such as metrics, logs, and traces using the OpenTelemetry API and SDKs.

These pages are intended to help you get started and understand the current
capabilities and status of OpenTelemetry Go.

## Status and Releases

The current status of the major functional components for OpenTelemetry
Go is as follows:

| Traces              | Metrics              | Logs              |
| ------------------- | -------------------- | ----------------- |
| [Stable](/docs/specs/otel/versioning-and-stability/#stable) | [Stable](/docs/specs/otel/versioning-and-stability/#stable) | [Beta](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/oteps/0232-maturity-of-otel.md#beta) |

For releases, including the [latest release][], see [Releases][]. 

[latest release]:
  <https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/releases/latest>
[Releases]:
  <https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/releases>
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## More

- [Contrib repository](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib)

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Section pages:

- [Getting Started](/bn/docs/languages/go/getting-started/)
- [Instrumentation](/bn/docs/languages/go/instrumentation/): Manual instrumentation for OpenTelemetry Go
- [Using instrumentation libraries](/bn/docs/languages/go/libraries/)
- [Exporters](/bn/docs/languages/go/exporters/)
- [Resources](/bn/docs/languages/go/resources/)
- [Sampling](/bn/docs/languages/go/sampling/)
- [API reference](/bn/docs/languages/go/api/)
- [Examples](/bn/docs/languages/go/examples/)
- [Registry](/bn/docs/languages/go/registry/): Instrumentation libraries, exporters and other useful components for OpenTelemetry Go