Issues

• Support explicit bucket boundaries (advisory parameters) when creating histograms

  r-lib/otel#49 · Filter by author schloerke opened on Oct 7, 2026

• No way to record a length-1 character vector as an array attribute

  r-lib/otel#48 · Filter by author schloerke opened on Oct 7, 2026

• Metrics API gets stuck

  r-lib/otel#46 · Filter by author lukakoning opened on Mar 14, 2026
  1

• default local span name

  r-lib/otel#45 · Filter by author JosiahParry opened on Dec 9, 2025
  1

• Add otel and otelsdk to the OpenTelemetry registry?

  upkeep
  r-lib/otel#38 · Filter by author wlandau opened on Oct 21, 2025

• Add set_attributes() span method to set multiple attributes at once

  feature
  r-lib/otel#35 · Filter by author gaborcsardi opened on Sep 29, 2025

• Consider whether to leave spans as 'unset'

  r-lib/otel#30 · Filter by author shikokuchuo opened on Sep 2, 2025
  3

• Support otel/stdout for exporter selection

  feature
  r-lib/otel#18 · Filter by author gaborcsardi opened on Jul 30, 2025

• Move the exporter selection logic to otelsdk

  upkeep
  r-lib/otel#17 · Filter by author gaborcsardi opened on Jul 30, 2025

• Support config environment variables

  feature
  r-lib/otel#1 · Filter by author gaborcsardi opened on Mar 21, 2025