opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics

What it is and what it does

This package provides OpenTelemetry instrumentation for collecting system-level performance metrics. It integrates with the OpenTelemetry ecosystem to gather data on system resources like CPU, memory, and disk usage, then exports that data through OpenTelemetry's standard export pipeline for use in observability platforms.

The package depends on psutil for low-level system metric collection and the core OpenTelemetry libraries (opentelemetry-api, opentelemetry-instrumentation, opentelemetry-semantic-conventions) to standardize and export the metrics. It's designed for developers building observability into applications that need to track host-level performance alongside application metrics.

Use it for:

• Export system CPU and memory metrics to a monitoring backend alongside application traces.
• Build dashboards correlating application performance with host resource utilization.
• Detect resource bottlenecks by collecting disk I/O and network metrics in production.
• Instrument containerized workloads to track system metrics in orchestrated environments.

Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying

Collects system performance metrics (CPU, memory, disk, network) and exports them via OpenTelemetry for observability and monitoring.

Yes, if you are already using OpenTelemetry and need system-level metrics alongside application instrumentation. The package is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, and low install friction. It is still in beta (0.65b0), so production use should account for potential API changes.

Install

opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics on PyPI

pip install opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics

uv add opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics

poetry add opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics

Installing opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics

Before you install

Low friction install with stable, actively maintained dependencies. Released 29 days ago with active upstream repository (last commit 2026-08-14). Supports Python 3.10 through 3.14.

License in practice

Apache-2.0 permissive license allows use in commercial and private projects with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart

pip install opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics

from opentelemetry.instrumentation.system_metrics import SystemMetricsInstrumentation

instrumentation = SystemMetricsInstrumentation()
instrumentation.instrument()

Requires Python 3.10 or later; psutil is a runtime dependency for system metric collection.

Verify before relying

• What specific system metrics (CPU, memory, disk, network) are actually collected and their granularity.
• Whether metric collection has configurable intervals or filtering options.
• Performance overhead of continuous system metric instrumentation.

Package facts

Evidence: opentelemetry_instrumentation_system_metrics-0.65b0-py3-none-any.whl

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