.NET

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

This is the OpenTelemetry .NET 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 .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.

Repositories

OpenTelemetry .NET consists of the following repositories:


Getting Started

Get telemetry for your app in less than 5 minutes!

Instrumentation

Instrumentation for OpenTelemetry .NET

Automatic Instrumentation

Send traces and metrics from .NET applications and services.

Using instrumentation libraries

Exporters

Resources

.NET Framework instrumentation configuration

OpenTelemetry Tracing Shim

Tracing API reference

Metrics API reference

Examples

Registry

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