Call for Contributors: OpenTelemetry for Kotlin
Why launch OpenTelemetry for Kotlin?
Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) allows running Kotlin code on many different platforms, such as browser, server, and desktop environments. Traditionally Kotlin has been most popular on Android and the JVM, but with the advent of KMP the number of folks using it to share code between different platforms has been steadily growing.
Embrace has opened a proposal to donate a Kotlin implementation of the OpenTelemetry specification that can be used in KMP projects. This would allow KMP and Kotlin projects to capture telemetry using one API for many different platforms. The API has been designed to remain as platform-agnostic an implementation of OpenTelemetry as possible and attempts to be as mobile-friendly as possible for the important Android/iOS use-case.
While opentelemetry-java does support Kotlin apps that run on the JVM, this relies on Java interop and doesn’t ‘feel’ like an idiomatic Kotlin API for OpenTelemetry. Furthermore, opentelemetry-java can only run on a JVM, whereas Kotlin can be deployed on non-JVM targets.
Call for contributors
If you’re interested in using OpenTelemetry on Kotlin Multiplatform we need your help! We are looking for contributors who are willing to maintain the codebase, participate in regular Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings, and generally help drive the SDK forward.
If you’re interested in becoming a contributor or if you know someone who might be, please comment on the donation proposal.
If you don’t want to become a contributor but do want to give feedback on the project so far or try it out, please checkout the repository here and file an issue with your thoughts.