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@opentelemetry/instrumentation-express

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OpenTelemetry instrumentation for `express` http web application framework

Last release 1 months ago
31 Aug 2026
Ships on a steady schedule
a new release about every 3 weeks
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 60 of the last 60 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
6 years old
75 releases · first in 2021

Release timeline

75 releases since 2021

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20212026

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Releases

0.30.015 Jun 2022
deps: update deps matching '@opentelemetry/*'
0.30.0 (2026-08-31)

Features

deps: update deps matching '@opentelemetry/*' (#3716) (015582a)

Bug Fixes

resource-detector-azure: read AKS cluster metadata from a mounted ConfigMap (#3649) (ab50f97)

Dependencies

The following workspace dependencies were updated

devDependencies

@opentelemetry/contrib-test-utils bumped from ^0.68.0 to ^0.69.0
Open source →
Additional notes
Features

update core dependencies stable ^1.3.1 experimental ^0.29.2 (141b155)
Open source →

0.29.024 May 2022

deps: update deps matching '@opentelemetry/*'

0.29.0 (2026-07-23)

Features

deps: update deps matching '@opentelemetry/*' (#3629) (466d5de)

Dependencies

The following workspace dependencies were updated
- devDependencies
  - @opentelemetry/contrib-test-utils bumped from ^0.67.0 to ^0.68.0

Open source →

Additional notes

Features

add supported node versions for all packages (#973) (baaacbd)
use Otel SDK 1.2/0.28 (#984) (098c2ed)

Bug Fixes

correctly disable Express instrumentation (#972) (b55b79b)

Open source →

0.25.015 Sept 2021

opentelemetry-browser-extension-autoinjection

:bug: Bug Fix

#619 fix: GraphQL throws TypeError: Cannot read property 'startToken' of undefined (@obecny)
#643 fix(user-interaction): event listeners have wrong this when listening for bubbled events (@t2t2)
#562 fix(mysql): bind get connection callback to active context (@sstone1)
#589 fix(hapi-instrumentation): close spans on errors in instrumented functions (@CptSchnitz)
#580 fix: redis instrumentation loses context when using callbacks (@aspectom)

:rocket: Enhancement

Other
- #626 feat(mongodb): add db statement serializer config (@nozik)
- #622 docs: add missing fetch instrumentation (@meteorlxy)
- #553 feat: Add NestJS instrumentation (@Rauno56)
- #588 chore: adding instrumentation for connect (@obecny)
opentelemetry-test-utils
- #593 feat: move aws/gcp detectors from opentelemetry-js repo (@legendecas)

:house: Internal

opentelemetry-test-utils
- #641 chore(mysql2): adding TAV script (@YanivD)
- #639 build(test-utils): marking test-utils as non private so it can be published (@blumamir)
- #596 docs(test-utils): add README.md for @opentelemetry/test-utils (@Rauno56)
Other
- #648 ci: speed up lint workflow with hoisting (@YanivD)
- #614 ci: speed up PR unit-test run time (@blumamir)
- #612 chore: ignore renovate-bot for component owners (@dyladan)
- #597 chore: add script to update core dependencies (@dyladan)
- #606 chore: add ownership for aws propagator (@dyladan)
- #601 chore: configure renovate to bump API (@Flarna)

:memo: Documentation

opentelemetry-browser-extension-autoinjection
- #615 docs: correct the build instructions (@jessitron)

Committers: 16

Amir Blum (@blumamir)
Bartlomiej Obecny (@obecny)
Daniel Dyla (@dyladan)
Gerhard Stöbich (@Flarna)
Herman (@hermanbanken)
Jessica Kerr (@jessitron)
Ofer Adelstein (@CptSchnitz)
Ran Nozik (@nozik)
Rauno Viskus (@Rauno56)
Simon Stone (@sstone1)
Tom Zach (@aspectom)
William Armiros (@willarmiros)
Yaniv Davidi (@YanivD)
legendecas (@legendecas)
meteorlxy (@meteorlxy)
t2t2 (@t2t2)

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0.24.029 Jul 2021

opentelemetry-browser-extension-autoinjection, opentelemetry-host-metrics, opentelemetry-id-generator-aws-xray, opentelemetry-test-utils

:bug: Bug Fix

#573 chore: fixing express example (@obecny)

:rocket: Enhancement

opentelemetry-browser-extension-autoinjection, opentelemetry-host-metrics, opentelemetry-id-generator-aws-xray, opentelemetry-test-utils
- #594 chore: update core deps to 0.24.0 (@dyladan)
opentelemetry-host-metrics
- #570 fix(package.json): publish source maps (@blumamir)
Other
- #571 fix(instrumentation-hapi): change root span name to route name (@CptSchnitz)
- #566 feat(aws-lambda): added eventContextExtractor config option (@prsnca)

:house: Internal

#592 chore(deps): upgrade @types/pino to be compatible with latest sonic-stream types (@legendecas)
#583 style: use single quotes everywhere and add a rule to eslint (@CptSchnitz)
#549 chore: enable typescript 4.3 option noImplicitOverride (@Flarna)

Committers: 8

Amir Blum (@blumamir)
Bartlomiej Obecny (@obecny)
Daniel Dyla (@dyladan)
Daniel Hermon (@syncush)
Gerhard Stöbich (@Flarna)
Ofer Adelstein (@CptSchnitz)
Yaron (@prsnca)
legendecas (@legendecas)

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0.23.02 Jul 2021

opentelemetry-browser-extension-autoinjection

:bug: Bug Fix

#557 chore: aligning target for esm build with core repo (@obecny)

:rocket: Enhancement

opentelemetry-browser-extension-autoinjection
- #498 feat: add browser extension (@svrnm)
opentelemetry-host-metrics, opentelemetry-id-generator-aws-xray, opentelemetry-test-utils
- #556 chore: update core and API (@dyladan)
Other
- #533 feat(mongo instrumentation): added response hook option (@prsnca)
- #546 feat(aws-lambda): disableAwsContextPropagation config option (@nirsky)
- #528 feat: postgresql responseHook support (@nata7che)
opentelemetry-test-utils
- #538 feat: add cassandra-driver instrumentation (@seemk)
- #539 feat: memcached instrumentation (@Rauno56)

:house: Internal

#554 chore: remove unneeded ts-node dev-dependency (@Flarna)

Committers: 9

Bartlomiej Obecny (@obecny)
Daniel Dyla (@dyladan)
Gerhard Stöbich (@Flarna)
Nir Hadassi (@nirsky)
Rauno Viskus (@Rauno56)
Severin Neumann (@svrnm)
Siim Kallas (@seemk)
Yaron (@prsnca)
natashz (@nata7che)

Open source →

0.22.023 Jun 2021

opentelemetry-host-metrics, opentelemetry-id-generator-aws-xray, opentelemetry-test-utils

:bug: Bug Fix

#537 fix(instrumentation-user-interaction): support clicks in React apps (@kkruk-sumo)

:rocket: Enhancement

opentelemetry-host-metrics, opentelemetry-id-generator-aws-xray, opentelemetry-test-utils
- #540 chore: update core and API (@dyladan)

Committers: 2

Daniel Dyla (@dyladan)
Krystian Kruk (@kkruk-sumo)

Open source →

0.21.016 Jun 2021

opentelemetry-host-metrics, opentelemetry-id-generator-aws-xray, opentelemetry-test-utils

:bug: Bug Fix

#524 [Hapi example] Fix undefined api.statusCode (@GradedJestRisk)

:rocket: Enhancement

opentelemetry-host-metrics, opentelemetry-id-generator-aws-xray, opentelemetry-test-utils
- #529 chore: update core and api to 0.21.0 (@dyladan)
- #522 chore: move api into peer dependency (@Flarna)
Other
- #506 feat: knex instrumentation (@Rauno56)
- #508 feat: graphql responseHook support (@nozik)
- #484 feat(instrumentation-document-load): performance paint timing events (@kkruk-sumo)
- #510 chore: add node:16 to the test matrix (@Rauno56)
- #521 feat: mysql2 instrumentation (@Rauno56)

Committers: 6

Daniel Dyla (@dyladan)
Gerhard Stöbich (@Flarna)
Krystian Kruk (@kkruk-sumo)
Ran Nozik (@nozik)
Rauno Viskus (@Rauno56)
@GradedJestRisk

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0.20.04 Jun 2021

opentelemetry-host-metrics, opentelemetry-id-generator-aws-xray, opentelemetry-test-utils

:bug: Bug Fix

#488 fix: dns plugin remove hostname attribute (@svrnm)
#468 moving dev dependency for types to main dependency (@obecny)

:rocket: Enhancement

Other
- #517 feat: use rpcMetadata to update http span name #464 (@vmarchaud)
- #441 feat(instrumentation-document-load): documentLoad attributes enhancement (@kkruk-sumo)
opentelemetry-host-metrics, opentelemetry-id-generator-aws-xray, opentelemetry-test-utils
- #513 chore: update core to 0.20.0 (@dyladan)
opentelemetry-test-utils
- #470 chore: removing usage of timed event from api (@obecny)

:house: Internal

Other
- #479 chore: generalize the instrumentation file name (@Rauno56)
- #481 fix: move faas_id and cloud_account_id to semantic conventions (@svrnm)
- #471 Fix repository for pg (@pauldraper)
opentelemetry-host-metrics, opentelemetry-id-generator-aws-xray, opentelemetry-test-utils
- #455 Update gts, eslint, typescript and hapi dependencies (@Flarna)

:memo: Documentation

#472 docs: Explicitly state that express instrumentation does not export spans without http instrumentation (@svrnm)
#450 chore: prefer use of global TracerProvider/MeterProvider (@Flarna)

Committers: 16

Amir Blum (@blumamir)
Anuraag Agrawal (@anuraaga)
Bartlomiej Obecny (@obecny)
Daniel Dyla (@dyladan)
Gerhard Stöbich (@Flarna)
Krystian Kruk (@kkruk-sumo)
Min Xia (@mxiamxia)
Nir Hadassi (@nirsky)
Paul Draper (@pauldraper)
Ran Nozik (@nozik)
Rauno Viskus (@Rauno56)
Severin Neumann (@svrnm)
Siim Kallas (@seemk)
Valentin Marchaud (@vmarchaud)
William Armiros (@willarmiros)
t2t2 (@t2t2)

Open source →

0.16.026 Apr 2021

opentelemetry-host-metrics, opentelemetry-id-generator-aws-xray, opentelemetry-test-utils

:boom: Breaking Change

opentelemetry-host-metrics
- #429 Remove plugins (@obecny)

:bug: Bug Fix

#403 chore: fixing context propagation on mongo callback (@obecny)

:rocket: Enhancement

opentelemetry-host-metrics, opentelemetry-id-generator-aws-xray, opentelemetry-test-utils
- #440 chore: update core to 0.19, api to rc0 (@dyladan)
opentelemetry-id-generator-aws-xray
- #423 feat: add x-ray id generator (@anuraaga)
Other
- #432 feat: pino instrumentation (@seemk)
- #425 feat: winston instrumentation (@seemk)
- #416 feat: restify instrumentation (@Rauno56)
- #419 feat: bunyan instrumentation (@seemk)

:house: Internal

opentelemetry-host-metrics, opentelemetry-test-utils
- #437 chore: clean some unused deps (@Rauno56)
Other
- #434 chore: clean up images from restify example (@Rauno56)

:memo: Documentation

#413 document: fix express example (@Rauno56)

Committers: 9

Anuraag Agrawal (@anuraaga)
Bartlomiej Obecny (@obecny)
Daniel Dyla (@dyladan)
Rauno Viskus (@Rauno56)
Severin Neumann (@svrnm)
Siim Kallas (@seemk)
Valentin Marchaud (@vmarchaud)
William Armiros (@willarmiros)
@gregoryfranklin

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0.15.05 Apr 2021

deps: update deps matching '@opentelemetry/*'

0.15.0 (2026-08-31)

Features

deps: update deps matching '@opentelemetry/*' (#3716) (015582a)

Open source →

Additional notes

:rocket: Enhancement

Other
- #366 Add automated release workflows (@willarmiros)
auto-instrumentation-web
- #391 chore: adding meta package for web (@obecny)
auto-instrumentation-node
- #379 chore: creating meta package for default auto instrumentations for node (@obecny)
opentelemetry-instrumentation-hapi
- #380 Moving Hapi Plugin to Instrumentation (@obecny)
opentelemetry-instrumentation-koa
- #327 feat: enable root span to contain route (@DinaYakovlev)
opentelemetry-instrumentation-mysql
- #393 feat: mysql instrumentation (@dyladan)
opentelemetry-instrumentation-net
- #389 feat: net module instrumentation (@seemk)
opentelemetry-host-metrics
- #395 chore: fixing broken links, updating to correct base url, replacing gitter with github discussions (@obecny)

:house: Internal

opentelemetry-host-metrics, opentelemetry-test-utils
- #408 chore: bump otel dependencies to latest patch (@dyladan)
Other
- #392 chore: fixing broken links (@obecny)

:memo: Documentation

opentelemetry-host-metrics
- #373 Update README.md (@z1c0)

Committers: 9

Bartlomiej Obecny (@obecny)
Daniel Dyla (@dyladan)
Dina.Yakovlev (@DinaYakovlev)
Gerhard Stöbich (@Flarna)
Jakub Malinowski (@jtmalinowski)
Siim Kallas (@seemk)
Valentin Marchaud (@vmarchaud)
William Armiros (@willarmiros)
Wolfgang Ziegler (@z1c0)

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0.14.05 Mar 2021

### :bug: Bug Fix * #367 docs(readme): fix links (@Hongbo-Miao) ### :rocket: Enhancement * #354 refactor: migrate mongodb to instrumentation #250 (@vm

:bug: Bug Fix

#367 docs(readme): fix links (@Hongbo-Miao)

:rocket: Enhancement

#354 refactor: migrate mongodb to instrumentation #250 (@vmarchaud)
#381 chore: fixing the graphql example and allowing support version of graph from ver 14 (@obecny)
#372 feat(instrumentation-ioredis): add requireParentSpan option to config (@blumamir)

:house: Internal

#371 chore: bump core to 0.18 (@dyladan)

Committers: 5

Amir Blum (@blumamir)
Bartlomiej Obecny (@obecny)
Daniel Dyla (@dyladan)
Hongbo Miao (@Hongbo-Miao)
Valentin Marchaud (@vmarchaud)

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@opentelemetry/instrumentation-express

Release timeline

Releases

0.30.0 (2026-08-31)

Features

Bug Fixes

Dependencies

Features

0.29.0 (2026-07-23)

Features

Dependencies

Features

Bug Fixes

Features

0.27.1 (2022-01-24)

Bug Fixes

Features

Features

:bug: Bug Fix

:rocket: Enhancement

:house: Internal

:memo: Documentation

Committers: 16

:bug: Bug Fix

:rocket: Enhancement

:house: Internal

Committers: 8

:bug: Bug Fix

:rocket: Enhancement

:house: Internal

Committers: 9

:bug: Bug Fix

:rocket: Enhancement

Committers: 2

:bug: Bug Fix

:rocket: Enhancement

Committers: 6

:bug: Bug Fix

:rocket: Enhancement

:house: Internal

:memo: Documentation

Committers: 16

:boom: Breaking Change

:bug: Bug Fix

:rocket: Enhancement

:house: Internal

:memo: Documentation

Committers: 9

0.15.0 (2026-08-31)

Features

:rocket: Enhancement

:house: Internal

:memo: Documentation

Committers: 9

:bug: Bug Fix

:rocket: Enhancement

:house: Internal

Committers: 5