# svetlanabrennan/opentelemetry-js — health index 37/100 (At risk)

> Inspection of the public repository svetlanabrennan/opentelemetry-js by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 37 out of 100, placing it in the At risk 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/svetlanabrennan/opentelemetry-js
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/svetlanabrennan/opentelemetry-js
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- Inspected: 2026-07-26
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.27.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 22/100 | Critical |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 28/100 | Critical |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 49/100 | At risk |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 69/100 | Moderate |
| Security | 16% | 49/100 | At risk |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 65/100 | Moderate |

Abandonment Policy applies a 85% multiplier to weighted overall health.

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | OpenTelemetry JavaScript Client |
| Homepage | https://opentelemetry.io |
| Primary language | TypeScript |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 0 |
| Forks | 0 |
| Created | 2021-11-23 |
| Last push | 2025-08-07 |
| Latest release | v0.26.0 |
| Commits (last year) | 0 |
| Bus factor | 4 |
| Fork | yes |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | opentelemetry | 0.1.0 | 31,975 |
| npm | @opentelemetry/api | 1.9.1 | 265,518,776 |
| npm | @opentelemetry/semantic-conventions | 1.43.0 | 364,745,276 |

## Vitality — 22/100 (Critical)

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

### Development activity — 4/100 (Critical)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | partial | 3.6 / 36 | last push 352 days ago |
| Commit cadence | not met | 0 / 36 | 0/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | not met | 0 / 18 | 0 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | not met | 0 / 10 | 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0 |

### Release discipline — 48/100 (At risk)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | partial | 16.2 / 27 | 42 version tags (no GitHub releases) |
| Release recency | not met | 0 / 36 | latest release 1760 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~20.5 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 10 | no releases found |

### Abandonment — 85/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | partial | 85 / 100 | no human commit for 381 days; 2 unmet obligation(s): releases stalled, Scorecard reports it unmaintained |

## Community & Adoption — 28/100 (Critical)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 18% 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 (Critical)

| 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 | — |

### Ecosystem adoption (downloads) — 75/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Registry dependents. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly downloads | partial | 60.1 / 80 | 31,975 downloads/month across npm |
| Registry dependents | excluded | 0 / 20 | not reported by this ecosystem |

## Sustainability & Governance — 49/100 (At risk)

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) — 86/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 43.2 / 54 | 4 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 18.9 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 16% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 98 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 43 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 1/100 (Critical)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | excluded | 0 / 46.8 | no issues or no data |
| PR acceptance | excluded | 0 / 38.2 | no decided pull requests or no data |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | not met | 0 / 15 | Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 49/100 (At risk)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | partial | 10 / 30 | personal (user) account |
| Verified domain | excluded | 0 / 20 | not applicable to user accounts |
| Owner reach | partial | 6.5 / 25 | 7 followers of svetlanabrennan |
| Track record | partial | 22.9 / 25 | 30 public repos, account ~7 yr old |

### Package maintenance — 53/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 1 package(s) on npm |
| Publish recency | partial | 4 / 35 | latest publish 1898 days ago |
| Version history | partial | 4 / 20 | 1 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 69/100 (Moderate)

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

### Engineering practices — 88/100 (Excellent)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 16 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .eslintrc.js |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | met | 6.4 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | excluded | 0 / 20 | no pull request found |

### Documentation — 40/100 (At risk)

| 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 | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 49/100 (At risk)

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 — 49/100 (At risk)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | no binaries found in the repo |
| Branch-Protection | not met | 0 / 7.5 | branch protection not enabled on development/release branches |
| CI-Tests | excluded | 0 / 2.5 | no pull request found |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | not met | 0 / 7.5 | Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 43 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | met | 10 / 10 | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | update tool detected |
| Fuzzing | not met | 0 / 5 | project is not fuzzed |
| License | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0 |
| Packaging | excluded | 0 / 5 | packaging workflow not detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 1.5 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 3 |
| SAST | met | 5 / 5 | SAST tool detected: CodeQL |
| Security-Policy | not met | 0 / 5 | security policy file not 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 | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 160 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 — 65/100 (Moderate)

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 — 40/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | not met | 0 / 45 | no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | met | 40 / 40 | 95 of 96 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 65/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | not met | 0 / 18 | — |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .eslintrc.js |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | api/tsconfig.json, examples/esm-http-ts/tsconfig.json, experimental/backwards-compatibility/node14/tsconfig.json, experimental/backwards-compatibility/node16/tsconfig.json, experimental/examples/logs/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/api-logs/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/exporter-logs-otlp-grpc/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/exporter-logs-otlp-http/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/exporter-logs-otlp-proto/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/exporter-trace-otlp-grpc/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/exporter-trace-otlp-http/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/exporter-trace-otlp-proto/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/opentelemetry-browser-detector/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-grpc/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-http/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-proto/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-fetch/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-http/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-xml-http-request/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/otlp-exporter-base/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/otlp-grpc-exporter-base/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/otlp-transformer/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/sampler-jaeger-remote/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/sdk-logs/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/shim-opencensus/tsconfig.json, experimental/packages/web-common/tsconfig.json, integration-tests/propagation-validation-server/tsconfig.json, packages/opentelemetry-context-async-hooks/tsconfig.json, packages/opentelemetry-context-zone-peer-dep/tsconfig.json, packages/opentelemetry-context-zone/tsconfig.json, packages/opentelemetry-core/tsconfig.json, packages/opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger/tsconfig.json, packages/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/tsconfig.json, packages/opentelemetry-propagator-b3/tsconfig.json, packages/opentelemetry-propagator-jaeger/tsconfig.json, packages/opentelemetry-resources/tsconfig.json, packages/opentelemetry-sdk-trace-base/tsconfig.json, packages/opentelemetry-sdk-trace-node/tsconfig.json, packages/opentelemetry-sdk-trace-web/tsconfig.json, packages/opentelemetry-shim-opentracing/tsconfig.json, packages/sdk-metrics/tsconfig.json, packages/template/tsconfig.json, semantic-conventions/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | Dockerfile, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | not met | 0 / 10 | no agent-authored commits among the last 100 |
| Automated maintenance | met | 8 / 8 | 4 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 3 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 3 |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | TypeScript (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.7 / 55 | 6/981 source files over 60KB |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | met | 40 / 40 | experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc/test/fixtures/grpc-test.proto |
| MCP server | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | examples |

## Collection warnings

- Community profile unavailable
- npm package '@opentelemetry/api' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- npm package '@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions' points at a different repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- GitHub dependency-graph SBOM unavailable (404); the dependency graph may be disabled for this repository

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