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opentelemetry-cpp

The OpenTelemetry C++ Client

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3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.4KGitHub stars
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What it is

The OpenTelemetry C++ Client

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:45:45 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-05-16 17:09:30 UTC to 2025-02-08 17:04:33 UTC.

012022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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These do not seem to be pure "header-only", but involve #include-ing the same file at least once with "#define C2_xxx_IMPLEMENTATION 1" That's fine though. AFAIK, there is no sane way (across platforms) to have singletons, and that involves some of the the trick above, unless you know someother way If you do, please add your idea here - https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/issues/2... - "Header only singletons are not working properly for Windows #2534"
In Collection of one-file C/C++ libraries with no dependencies, primarily for games
Maybe surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be an open source C client library for OpenTelemetry at the moment -- I'd guess that such a library would make introducing spans/traces in PostgreSQL a bit easier (although to be honest, I don't know/remember much about calling and linking to C++ libraries from a C codebase). (note: there is a C++ client[1], although they mention that support for C is not currently[2] a goal of the project -- and I couldn't find any C implementations elsewhere) [1] - https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp.git/ [2] - https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/tree/db6...
In OpenTelemetry Traces and PostgreSQL

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