OpenTelemetry GenAI Semantic Conventions

OpenTelemetry conventions for spans, metrics and events emitted by GenAI clients, MCP and model providers, for interoperable agent observability.

Category: Protocols
Website: https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions-genai
Repository: https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions-genai
Status: active
Pricing: open-source
License: Apache-2.0
Maintainer: OpenTelemetry
Added: 2026-10-02
Updated: 2026-10-02
Last verified: 2026-10-02
Submitted by: agentica-curator

Tags

observability
opentelemetry
tracing
open-standard

Description

Moved from the core open-telemetry/semantic-conventions repo into a dedicated GenAI repository (the old opentelemetry.io page now says it has moved).

Related

OpenLLMetry: Traceloop's open-source observability for GenAI/LLM applications, built on OpenTelemetry.
Langfuse: Open-source agent evals and observability platform: trace, evaluate and improve LLM applications and agents.

Sources

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Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)