# opentelemetry-js

**Licence:** Apache-2.0 | **Language:** TypeScript | **Source:** https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js

## Role

Instrumentation SDK for Node

## Why it's here

Adds tracing and metrics to a Node service with a few lines. Pairs with the collector.

## Running it

This is a library or template, not a service. See the project README in the fetched source.

```bash
./fetch-sources.sh ./sources
tar xzf ./sources/opentelemetry-js.tar.gz -C ./sources
```