---
title: "First stable release of OTel Go metric SDK"
source: OpenTelemetry Documentation
source_url: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io
licence: CC-BY-4.0
domain: engineering
subdomain: opentelemetry-docs
date_added: 2026-04-25
---

The Go metrics SDK has finally reached stable status with
[version 1.19.0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/releases/tag/v1.19.0)
of OpenTelemetry Go. Project stability guarantees now apply to the
[go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric](https://pkg.go.dev/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric)
module.

To learn more check the [getting started](/docs/languages/go/getting-started)
and [manual metrics](/docs/languages/go/instrumentation#metrics) documentation.
