{"categories":[{"label":"Monitoring","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/system-monitoring"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Exports OpenTelemetry traces to Google Cloud Trace for distributed tracing and observability in GCP environments.","skillfed_tags":["observability","gcp-integration","distributed-tracing"],"use_cases":["Send distributed traces from a Python microservice to Google Cloud Trace for centralized observability.","Instrument a multi-service application running on GCP and correlate requests across service boundaries.","Export OpenTelemetry spans collected from your application to Cloud Trace for performance analysis and debugging.","Integrate existing OpenTelemetry instrumentation with GCP's native tracing backend without rewriting instrumentation code.","Monitor latency and errors in cloud-native applications by exporting detailed trace data to Cloud Trace."],"what_it_does":"This package provides an OpenTelemetry exporter that sends trace spans to Google Cloud Trace, enabling distributed tracing and observability for applications running on or integrated with Google Cloud Platform. It acts as a bridge between OpenTelemetry's instrumentation framework and GCP's native tracing backend, allowing you to collect, visualize, and analyze request flows across microservices.\n\nThe package is marked as deprecated in favor of native OTLP (OpenTelemetry Protocol) ingestion, which Google Cloud now supports directly. However, it remains actively maintained and functional. It depends on google-cloud-trace for the underlying GCP integration, opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-sdk for the tracing framework, opentelemetry-resourcedetector-gcp for GCP resource detection, and typing-extensions for type hints. Python 3.9 or later is required.","worth_installing":"Yes, with conditions. The package is actively maintained and low-friction to install, but it is explicitly deprecated in favor of native OTLP exporters. Install it if you are already committed to this exporter or migrating gradually; for new projects, consider using standard OTLP exporters instead per the migration guide. No known security vulnerabilities."},"id":"opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-trace","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-trace","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-trace.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-trace/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-08-03","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-trace","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Google Cloud Trace exporter for OpenTelemetry"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":11854941,"position":1357,"tier":"top_5000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"1.14.0"}