---
title: First stable release of OTel Go metric SDK
linkTitle: Go Metric SDK is Stable
date: 2023-10-02
author: '[Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti](https://github.com/theletterf/) (Splunk)'
cSpell:ignore: Benedetti Fabrizio Ferri
---

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.
