# open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector — health index 90/100 (Excellent)

> Inspection of the public repository open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 90 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent 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/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/o/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-14
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.11.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 100/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 94/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 82/100 | Good |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 90/100 | Excellent |
| Security | 16% | 82/100 | Good |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 90/100 | Excellent |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | OpenTelemetry Collector |
| Homepage | https://opentelemetry.io |
| Primary language | Go |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 7,247 |
| Forks | 2,148 |
| Created | 2019-05-09 |
| Last push | 2026-07-14 |
| Latest release | v0.156.0 |
| Commits (last year) | 1,111 |
| Bus factor | 4 |
| Topics | metrics, monitoring, observability, open-telemetry, opentelemetry, telemetry |

## Vitality — 100/100 (Excellent)

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping? Weight: 22% of the overall index.

### Development activity — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | met | 36 / 36 | 52/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 1111 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 8 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |

### Release discipline — 100/100 (Excellent)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 100 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 7 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~12.4 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 10 | no releases found |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | maintenance record not established from the collected data |

## Community & Adoption — 94/100 (Excellent)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 18% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 96/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 7,247 stars |
| Forks | met | 25 / 25 | 2,148 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 10.8 / 15 | 88 watchers |

### Community health — 92/100 (Excellent)

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

## Sustainability & Governance — 82/100 (Good)

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep? Weight: 24% of the overall index.

### Maintainer resilience (bus factor) — 82/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 43.2 / 54 | 4 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 15.7 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 30% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 100 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 49 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 83/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 39 / 46.8 | 84% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 28.8 / 38.2 | 8117/10797 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | met | 15 / 15 | all changesets reviewed |

### Ownership & stewardship — 80/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | met | 25 / 25 | 7,528 followers of open-telemetry |
| Track record | met | 25 / 25 | 105 public repos, account ~7 yr old |

## Engineering Quality — 90/100 (Excellent)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 20% of the overall index.

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 37 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 | 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |

### Documentation — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | met | 25 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://opentelemetry.io |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 6 topics |
| Wiki | met | 10 / 10 | — |

## Security — 82/100 (Good)

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 — 82/100 (Good)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | no binaries found in the repo |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 3 / 7.5 | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| CI-Tests | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |
| CII-Best-Practices | partial | 1.2 / 2.5 | badge detected: Passing |
| Code-Review | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | all changesets reviewed |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 49 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 | 30 commit(s) and 8 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | met | 5 / 5 | packaging workflow detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | met | 5 / 5 | all dependencies are pinned |
| SAST | partial | 4.5 / 5 | SAST tool detected but not run on all commits |
| Security-Policy | met | 5 / 5 | security policy file detected |
| Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | no releases found |
| Token-Permissions | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege |
| Vulnerabilities | partial | 6 / 7.5 | 2 existing vulnerabilities detected |

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

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 — 90/100 (Excellent)

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? An independent, experimental badge — weight 0.0, so it is surfaced on its own and does not affect the overall health score.

### Agent context & guidance — 75/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Legible commit history. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | met | 45 / 45 | AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

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

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Demonstrated agent practice, Automated maintenance. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | met | 18 / 18 | Makefile, client/Makefile, cmd/builder/Makefile, cmd/mdatagen/Makefile, cmd/otelcorecol/Makefile, cmd/schemagen/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/schemagen/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 | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | excluded | 0 / 8 | no data |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | met | 10 / 10 | all dependencies are pinned |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | Go (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.9 / 55 | 2/1736 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 80/100 (Good)

| 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 | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | examples |

## What this report is

inspect.software measures public repositories against a single published, versioned methodology and reports the result as a 1–100 health index. Findings are signals derived from what is visible in public repository data — they are not a security audit, a warranty, or an endorsement, and no result depends on payment.

- Methodology, formulas and weights: https://inspect.software/methodology.md
- What a result does and does not claim: https://inspect.software/wiki/signals-not-warranties.md
- Rating bands: https://inspect.software/wiki/scoring-bands.md
- Corrections: https://inspect.software/contact.md
- Index of all documents: https://inspect.software/llms.txt