Erlang/Elixir

A language-specific implementation of OpenTelemetry in Erlang/Elixir.

This is the OpenTelemetry Erlang/Elixir 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 Erlang/Elixir.

Status and Releases

The current status of the major functional components for OpenTelemetry Erlang/Elixir is as follows:

Traces	Metrics	Logs
Stable	Experimental	Experimental

For releases, including the latest release, see Releases.

Packages of the API, SDK and OTLP exporter are published to hex.pm as opentelemetry_api, opentelemetry and opentelemetry_exporter.

Version support

OpenTelemetry Erlang supports Erlang 23+ and Elixir 1.13+.

Repositories

opentelemetry-erlang: Main repository containing the API, SDK and OTLP Exporter.
opentelemetry-erlang-contrib: Helpful libraries and instrumentation libraries for Erlang/Elixir projects like Phoenix and Ecto