opentelemetry-python VS seaworthy

Python

As an example, Exemplars are part of the metrics spec [1]. The official python library says metrics status is 'stable' [2]. But there's an approximately 2-year old issue with no work on it, titled 'Metrics: Add support for exemplars', where the latest update is that no work has begun [3]. Nothing at a top-level of the opentelemetry-python project indicates that the project does not implement everything in the metrics spec, so if you wanted to use that capability, you are apt to discover it relatively late.

[1] https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/metrics/data-model/...

[2] https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python

[3] https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/issue...

Unfortunately, I have not seen any modern libraries that can match the features offered by the archived library. However, there are similar libraries that could be used, such as https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python which provides health checks and metrics. Additionally, you could use Prometheus libraries such as https://github.com/prometheus/client\_python to get similar metrics. However, both of these libraries might require some modification to get the desired features

We need to force a specific version of protobuf because of Launcher compatibility issues with newer versions. This was already fixed in opentelemetry-python.

I spent a huge amount of time - maybe 6 hours - digging into the problem. I was flipping back and forth between honeycomb's docs, the open telemetry docs, and the open telemetry python repo digging through issues.

You can check out the current releases of opentelemetry-python.

Not exactly what you are asking for, but I thought it still might be relevant to whoever stops by. I started a health checking CLI awhile back, still in prototype phase. The idea is to provide the same functionality that ArgoCD and Spinnaker do regarding identifying of a resource is "healthy". https://github.com/cakehappens/seaworthy