Odigos
Apache-2.0 distributed tracing without code changes
Observability / Observability · Apache-2.0 · 3.7k
Reviewed 2026-10-18 · last push 2026-10-19 · repo checked 2026-10-19
What's Good
Apache-2.0 (odigos-io/odigos), release v1.36.5 (2026-10-16). Created by maintainers of OpenTelemetry. It separates data recording from processing to keep runtime overhead low, auto-detects languages, and sends data to many open-source and commercial backends. Good for adding tracing to an existing fleet where touching every service is not realistic. ★~3.7k.
The Catch
Auto-instrumentation shows you request flow but not your business attributes; you will still add manual spans for that. Some advanced eBPF instrumentation is in the commercial Odigos Enterprise. It is another operator to run in the cluster.
Verdict
The quickest way to get traces from a fleet you cannot re-instrument.
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