# Sawmills/opentelemetry-collector — health index 63/100 (Moderate)

> Inspection of the public repository Sawmills/opentelemetry-collector by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 63 out of 100, placing it in the Moderate band. The index is a signal derived from publicly visible practice, not a warranty, a security audit, or an endorsement, and it is independent of payment.

- Repository: https://github.com/Sawmills/opentelemetry-collector
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/Sawmills/opentelemetry-collector
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/Sawmills/opentelemetry-collector/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/s/Sawmills/opentelemetry-collector.svg
- Inspected: 2026-09-04
- Methodology: metrics 2.10.0, report schema 0.34.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 21% | 73/100 | Good |
| Community & Adoption | 17% | 12/100 | Critical |
| Sustainability & Governance | 23% | 66/100 | Good |
| Engineering Quality | 19% | 70/100 | Good |
| Security | 16% | 57/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | 4% | 96/100 | Exceptional |

The weighted overall 59 is calibrated to 63 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | OpenTelemetry Collector |
| Classification | cli |
| Homepage | https://opentelemetry.io |
| Primary language | Go |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 0 |
| Forks | 0 |
| Created | 2025-06-30 |
| Last push | 2026-07-28 |
| Latest release | pdata/v0.140.0-1-sawmills |
| Commits (last year) | 634 |
| Bus factor | 4 |
| Fork | yes |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| go | go.opentelemetry.io/collector | v0.160.0 | — |
| go | go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata | v1.66.0 | — |
| go | go.opentelemetry.io/collector/client | v1.66.0 | — |
| go | go.opentelemetry.io/collector/filter | v0.160.0 | — |
| go | go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap | v1.66.0 | — |
| go | go.opentelemetry.io/collector/otelcol | v0.160.0 | — |
| go | go.opentelemetry.io/collector/scraper | v0.160.0 | — |
| go | go.opentelemetry.io/collector/service | v0.160.0 | — |
| go | go.opentelemetry.io/collector/cmd/builder | v0.160.0 | — |
| go | go.opentelemetry.io/collector/cmd/mdatagen | v0.160.0 | — |
| go | go.opentelemetry.io/collector/cmd/otelcorecol | v0.66.0 | — |
| go | go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/confignet | v1.66.0 | — |
| go | go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/configtls | v1.66.0 | — |
| go | go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/xconfmap | v0.160.0 | — |
| go | go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/configauth | v1.66.0 | — |
| go | go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/configgrpc | v1.66.0 | — |

## Vitality — 73/100 (Good)

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping? Weight: 21% of the overall index.

### Development activity — 69/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | partial | 18 / 36 | last push 38 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 22.8 / 36 | 33/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 634 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 12 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |

### Release discipline — 78/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 2 releases published |
| Release recency | partial | 16.2 / 36 | latest release 278 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~0 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 10 | no releases found |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | last human commit 38 days ago |

## Community & Adoption — 12/100 (Critical)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 17% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 1/100 (Critical)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | not met | 0 / 60 | 0 stars |
| Forks | not met | 0 / 25 | 0 forks |
| Watchers | not met | 0 / 15 | 0 watchers |

### Community health — 25/100 (At Risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | not met | 0 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (Apache-2.0) |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | not met | 0 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | not met | 0 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | not met | 0 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 66/100 (Good)

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep? Weight: 23% of the overall index.

### Maintainer resilience (bus factor) — 81/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 43.2 / 54 | 4 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 14.4 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 36% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 96 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 45 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 64/100 (Moderate)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Issue resolution, Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | excluded | 0 / 42 | no issues or no data |
| PR acceptance | partial | 25.7 / 30 | 12/14 decided PRs merged |
| Newcomer PR acceptance | excluded | 0 / 13 | no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | partial | 3 / 15 | Found 3/11 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 51/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 6.1 / 25 | 6 followers of Sawmills |
| Track record | partial | 14.6 / 25 | 22 public repos, account ~2 yr old |

## Engineering Quality — 70/100 (Good)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 19% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 84/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 34 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .golangci.yml |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | not met | 0 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | met | 20 / 20 | 4 out of 4 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |

### Documentation — 50/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | not met | 0 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | met | 25 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://opentelemetry.io |
| Repository description | not met | 0 / 10 | — |
| Topics | not met | 0 / 10 | — |
| Wiki | met | 10 / 10 | — |

## Security — 57/100 (Moderate)

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, with no malicious dependency and no unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure? Weight: 16% of the overall index.

### Security posture — 57/100 (Moderate)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | no binaries found in the repo |
| Branch-Protection | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | internal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: some github tokens can't read classic branch protection rules: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/blob/main/docs/authentication/fine-grained-auth-token.md |
| CI-Tests | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | 4 out of 4 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | partial | 1.5 / 7.5 | Found 3/11 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 45 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | not met | 0 / 10 | dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | update tool detected |
| Fuzzing | met | 5 / 5 | project is fuzzed |
| License | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 12 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | met | 5 / 5 | packaging workflow detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 4.5 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 9 |
| SAST | met | 5 / 5 | SAST tool is run on all commits |
| Security-Policy | not met | 0 / 5 | security policy file not detected |
| Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | no releases found |
| Token-Permissions | not met | 0 / 7.5 | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| Vulnerabilities | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 42 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### High-Risk Jurisdiction Exposure — 100/100 (Exceptional)

Only high-confidence self-published location evidence affects this multiplier. Ambiguous matches are review-only; country evidence is not proof of nationality, citizenship, legal registration, malicious intent, or sanctions status.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Policy exposure multiplier | met | 100 / 100 | no confirmed policy-scope location match |

## AI Readiness — 96/100 (Exceptional)

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight: agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but its absence must never gate the top of the scale (calibration saturates at raw 91, so 100/100 remains reachable with AI Readiness at zero).

### Agent context & guidance — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | met | 45 / 45 | AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | met | 15 / 15 | llms.txt served by the project website (https://opentelemetry.io/llms.txt) |
| Legible commit history | met | 40 / 40 | 71 of 74 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 89/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | met | 18 / 18 | Makefile, client/Makefile, cmd/builder/Makefile, cmd/mdatagen/Makefile, cmd/otelcorecol/Makefile, component/Makefile, component/componentstatus/Makefile, component/componenttest/Makefile, config/configauth/Makefile, config/configcompression/Makefile, config/configgrpc/Makefile, config/confighttp/Makefile, config/confighttp/xconfighttp/Makefile, config/configmiddleware/Makefile, config/confignet/Makefile, config/configopaque/Makefile, config/configoptional/Makefile, config/configretry/Makefile, config/configtelemetry/Makefile, config/configtls/Makefile, confmap/Makefile, confmap/internal/e2e/Makefile, confmap/provider/envprovider/Makefile, confmap/provider/fileprovider/Makefile, confmap/provider/httpprovider/Makefile, confmap/provider/httpsprovider/Makefile, confmap/provider/yamlprovider/Makefile, confmap/xconfmap/Makefile, connector/Makefile, connector/connectortest/Makefile, connector/forwardconnector/Makefile, connector/xconnector/Makefile, consumer/Makefile, consumer/consumererror/Makefile, consumer/consumererror/xconsumererror/Makefile, consumer/consumertest/Makefile, consumer/xconsumer/Makefile, exporter/Makefile, exporter/debugexporter/Makefile, exporter/exporterhelper/Makefile, exporter/exporterhelper/xexporterhelper/Makefile, exporter/exportertest/Makefile, exporter/nopexporter/Makefile, exporter/otlpexporter/Makefile, exporter/otlphttpexporter/Makefile, exporter/xexporter/Makefile, extension/Makefile, extension/extensionauth/Makefile, extension/extensionauth/extensionauthtest/Makefile, extension/extensioncapabilities/Makefile, extension/extensionmiddleware/Makefile, extension/extensionmiddleware/extensionmiddlewaretest/Makefile, extension/extensiontest/Makefile, extension/memorylimiterextension/Makefile, extension/xextension/Makefile, extension/zpagesextension/Makefile, featuregate/Makefile, filter/Makefile, internal/cmd/pdatagen/Makefile, internal/componentalias/Makefile, internal/e2e/Makefile, internal/fanoutconsumer/Makefile, internal/memorylimiter/Makefile, internal/sharedcomponent/Makefile, internal/telemetry/Makefile, internal/testutil/Makefile, internal/tools/Makefile, otelcol/Makefile, otelcol/otelcoltest/Makefile, pdata/Makefile, pdata/pprofile/Makefile, pdata/testdata/Makefile, pdata/xpdata/Makefile, pipeline/Makefile, pipeline/xpipeline/Makefile, processor/Makefile, processor/batchprocessor/Makefile, processor/memorylimiterprocessor/Makefile, processor/processorhelper/Makefile, processor/processorhelper/xprocessorhelper/Makefile, processor/processortest/Makefile, processor/xprocessor/Makefile, receiver/Makefile, receiver/nopreceiver/Makefile, receiver/otlpreceiver/Makefile, receiver/receiverhelper/Makefile, receiver/receivertest/Makefile, receiver/xreceiver/Makefile, scraper/Makefile, scraper/scraperhelper/Makefile, scraper/scraperhelper/xscraperhelper/Makefile, scraper/scrapertest/Makefile, scraper/xscraper/Makefile, service/Makefile, service/hostcapabilities/Makefile, service/telemetry/telemetrytest/Makefile |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .golangci.yml |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | Go (statically typed) |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | not met | 0 / 10 | no agent-authored commits among the last 100 |
| Automated maintenance | met | 8 / 8 | 24 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 9 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 9 |

### Code legibility for models — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | Go (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 55 / 55 | 1/1649 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 100/100 (Exceptional)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): MCP server. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | met | 40 / 40 | exporter/exporterhelper/internal/queue/meta.proto, pdata/xpdata/request/internal/request.proto |
| MCP server | excluded | 0 / 20 | not applicable to this kind of software |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | examples |

## Collection warnings

- Community profile unavailable
- go package 'go.opentelemetry.io/collector' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- go package 'go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- go package 'go.opentelemetry.io/collector/client' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- go package 'go.opentelemetry.io/collector/filter' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- go package 'go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- go package 'go.opentelemetry.io/collector/otelcol' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- go package 'go.opentelemetry.io/collector/scraper' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- go package 'go.opentelemetry.io/collector/service' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- go package 'go.opentelemetry.io/collector/cmd/builder' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- go package 'go.opentelemetry.io/collector/cmd/mdatagen' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- go package 'go.opentelemetry.io/collector/cmd/otelcorecol' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- go package 'go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/confignet' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- go package 'go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/configtls' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- go package 'go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/xconfmap' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- go package 'go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/configauth' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- go package 'go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/configgrpc' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- GitHub dependency-graph SBOM unavailable (404); the dependency graph may be disabled for this repository

## What this report is

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