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OTel Libs

Standardized OpenTelemetry instrumentation libraries for .NET, Python, and Go.

Full documentation

The complete documentation lives at staffops.github.io/otel-libs/.

What it does

Gives every service the same OpenTelemetry setup regardless of language — one collector endpoint, one set of environment variables, no vendor SDKs.

Libraries

Language Package Status
.NET OtelHelper (NuGet) Production
Python otel-helper (PyPI) Production
Go otelhelper (Go module) Production

Optional AWS, Redis, and SQL instrumentation ship as opt-in extensions per language, so core packages stay lightweight.

Architecture

[ Application (.NET / Python / Go) ]
        ↓ OTLP gRPC :4317
[ OpenTelemetry Collector ]
        ↓
┌──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ Traces   │ Metrics  │ Logs     │
│ (Tempo)  │ (VM)     │ (Loki)   │
└──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘

Key properties

  • OpenTelemetry as the single standard — no vendor SDKs
  • Everything exported via the Collector; SDKs never talk to backends directly
  • Prometheus /metrics fallback (port 9464) when no OTLP endpoint is configured
  • Sampling and resource attributes applied at the Collector, not the SDK
  • TLS by default for OTLP endpoints; opt out explicitly for local plaintext collectors

Quick start

services.AddOtelHelper();

from otel_helper import setup_telemetry
setup_telemetry()

import otelhelper "github.com/staffops/staffops-otel-libs/go"

shutdown, err := otelhelper.Setup(ctx)
defer shutdown(ctx)

Source

github.com/StaffOps/otel-libs