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agentic-dev/docs/library-decisions/2026-05-14-@opentelemetry/api-logs.md
Danijel Martinek 9ff861667a chore(deps): backfill library traces for ADR-017 cluster
Adds approved trace files dated 2026-05-14 for all 13 OpenTelemetry
packages in packages/core-shared and packages/core-audit:

  @opentelemetry/api, api-logs, context-async-hooks,
  instrumentation, instrumentation-http, instrumentation-pg,
  instrumentation-undici, resources, sdk-logs, sdk-metrics,
  sdk-node, sdk-trace-base, semantic-conventions

All files pass validateTrace() from schema.mjs. The @sentry/opentelemetry
bridge was already covered in the ADR-014 cluster commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-14 10:01:30 +00:00

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package, version, tier, decision, date, deciders, adr, filter-results, verification-commands, accepted-cves
package version tier decision date deciders adr filter-results verification-commands accepted-cves
@opentelemetry/api-logs ^0.55.0 core approved 2026-05-14
Danijel Martinek
adr-017
license types maintenance boundary-fit shadow-check eu-residency cve-scan named-consumer
Apache-2.0 native active pass pass n/a clean pass
npm view @opentelemetry/api-logs license
npm view @opentelemetry/api-logs version
pnpm audit --audit-level=moderate

Filter: license

npm view @opentelemetry/api-logs license returns Apache-2.0. Apache-2.0 is on the allowlist.

Filter: types

@opentelemetry/api-logs is authored in TypeScript and ships its own .d.ts declaration files. No separate @types/ package is needed.

Filter: maintenance

Actively maintained by the OpenTelemetry community under the CNCF as part of the unified OTel JS repository. Versioned alongside the SDK packages; the 0.55.x line is current and aligns with the SDK release cycle.

Filter: boundary-fit

ADR-017 §4 designates @opentelemetry/api-logs as the Logs API for OtelLogger in core-shared/instrumentation/. Feature packages interact with logging only via the ILogger interface (ADR-014 R34); they do not import this package directly.

Filter: shadow-check

@opentelemetry/api-logs is the only OTel Logs API in the workspace. It complements @opentelemetry/api (traces) and @opentelemetry/sdk-metrics (metrics) to form the complete three-signal OTel pipeline. No competing logging API is present.

Filter: eu-residency

@opentelemetry/api-logs is a pure API package with no network communication or data transmission. EU residency does not apply.

Filter: cve-scan

pnpm audit --audit-level=moderate reports no advisories against @opentelemetry/api-logs at the time of this trace.

Filter: named-consumer

packages/core-shared/src/instrumentation/otel/otel-logger.ts implements ILogger using @opentelemetry/api-logs to emit log records via the OTel Logs API (ADR-017 §4). packages/core-audit also depends on it for structured audit log emission.

Prompt: replaces

OtelLogger replaces the former SentryLogger which called Sentry SDK methods directly. @opentelemetry/api-logs provides the vendor-neutral log emission surface so that the downstream exporter (Sentry via @sentry/opentelemetry) can be swapped without touching logger code.

Prompt: migration-cost-out

Hard. @opentelemetry/api-logs is called in every OtelLogger log-emission path in core-shared. Moving to a different logs API (e.g., a custom abstraction) would require rewriting both the logger implementation and the OTel SDK initialization. The ILogger interface boundary (ADR-014) limits blast radius to core-shared.

Prompt: alternatives-considered

  1. Winston / Pino as the log API — Considered before ADR-017. Rejected because a separate log library alongside OTel would create a split-pipeline problem: traces and logs would travel through different channels, losing correlation.
  2. Sentry SDK breadcrumb API directly — Rejected in ADR-017: direct Sentry coupling prevents vendor swap without code changes.

See ADR-017 for the full decision rationale.