This was a colossal amount of work but I could not be happier that #rstats has a serious OpenTelemetry story now.
Aaron Jacobs
OpenTelemetry has come to R 🎉
Shiny, plumber2, mirai, httr2, ellmer, knitr, testthat, and DBI are now instrumented: production-grade traces from R with no code changes. Set a few env vars and telemetry flows to the backend of your choice.
Full write-up: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05...
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Posit has instrumented Shiny, plumber2, mirai, httr2, ellmer, knitr, testthat, and DBI with OpenTelemetry, and created tools for you to instrument your own packages, bringing production-grade observab...