.NET

.NET A language-specific implementation of OpenTelemetry in .NET.

Welcome to the OpenTelemetry .NET documentation. This section introduces how to use OpenTelemetry with .NET 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 .NET.

Status and Releases

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

TracesMetricsLogs
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For releases, including the latest release, see Releases.

Version support

OpenTelemetry for .NET supports all officially supported versions of .NET and .NET Framework except for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.

Signals

OpenTelemetry .NET supports the following signals:

  • Traces: Learn how to collect distributed traces in your .NET applications.
  • Metrics: Learn how to collect metrics in your .NET applications.
  • Logs: Learn how to collect logs in your .NET applications.

Repositories

OpenTelemetry .NET consists of the following repositories:


Getting Started

Get telemetry for your app in less than 5 minutes!

OpenTelemetry .NET traces

Use OpenTelemetry .NET to collect and export trace telemetry data

OpenTelemetry .NET metrics

Use OpenTelemetry .NET to collect and export metric telemetry data

OpenTelemetry .NET logs

Use OpenTelemetry .NET to collect and export log telemetry data

Instrumentation

Instrumentation for OpenTelemetry .NET

Using instrumentation libraries

Resources in OpenTelemetry .NET

Learn about resources and how to use them in OpenTelemetry .NET

Exporters

.NET Framework instrumentation configuration

Troubleshooting

Learn how to troubleshoot OpenTelemetry .NET

OpenTelemetry Tracing Shim

Tracing API reference

Metrics API reference

Examples

Registry

Instrumentation libraries, exporters and other useful components for OpenTelemetry .NET