JavaScript

JavaScript A language-specific implementation of OpenTelemetry in JavaScript (for Node.js & the browser).

This is the OpenTelemetry JavaScript documentation. OpenTelemetry is an observability framework – an API, SDK, and tools that are designed to aid in the generation and collection of application telemetry data such as metrics, logs, and traces. This documentation is designed to help you understand how to get started using OpenTelemetry JavaScript.

Status and Releases

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

TracesMetricsLogs
StableStableDevelopment

For releases, including the latest release, see Releases.

Further Reading


Getting Started

Automatic Instrumentation

Manual

Manual instrumentation for OpenTelemetry JavaScript

Using instrumentation libraries

How to instrument libraries an app depends on

Exporters

Context

OpenTelemetry JavaScript Context API Documentation

Propagation

Context propagation for the JS SDK

Resources

Sampling

Serverless

API reference

Examples