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+   **Warning**
+
+   OpenCensus and OpenTracing have merged to form
+   `OpenTelemetry <https://opentelemetry.io>`__, which serves as the
+   next major version of OpenCensus and OpenTracing.
+
+   OpenTelemetry has now reached feature parity with OpenCensus, with
+   tracing and metrics SDKs available in .NET, Golang, Java, NodeJS, and
+   Python. **All OpenCensus Github repositories will be archived**. We
+   encourage users to migrate to OpenTelemetry.
+
+   To help you gradually migrate your instrumentation to OpenTelemetry,
+   bridges are available in Java, Go, Python, and JS. `Read the full
+   blog post to learn
+   more <https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2023/sunsetting-opencensus/>`__.
+
 OpenCensus - A stats collection and distributed tracing framework
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