---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/autotel-backends/v/2.14.14"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/autotel-backends/v/2.14.14.md"
package: "autotel-backends"
report_status: "published"
title: "autotel-backends@2.14.14 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "2.14.14"
---

# autotel-backends@2.14.14 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 12 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 2.14.14
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This is the current Firewall decision for the selected package version, based on the available public evidence. Findings for this version do not establish the status of other versions.

AI assessment: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Source inspection found no install hook or covert runtime behavior. The environment references and credentials are part of caller-invoked telemetry configuration for vendor backends.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-22T08:36:00.835Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-22T08:36:51.420Z
- **Download time:** 772 ms
- **Static scan time:** 77 ms
- **AI review time:** 49735 ms
- **Total time:** 50585 ms

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No attack surface was identified in the inspected package or required dependency entrypoints. The package provides helpers for configuring telemetry exporters.

- **Trigger:** A consumer imports and calls a backend configuration helper.

- **Impact:** No unauthorized collection, disclosure, or system modification was identified.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-22T08:36:51.420Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** The helper returns exporter configuration using caller-provided settings; the Datadog helper sets missing telemetry environment defaults when called.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection found no install hook or covert runtime behavior. The environment references and credentials are part of caller-invoked telemetry configuration for vendor backends.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 93.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest exposes backend configuration helpers and contains no install lifecycle hook; its scripts are for development and quality checks., The inspected dependencies expose telemetry and logging APIs through their package entrypoints; their inspected manifests and entrypoints show no install-time behavior., The package entrypoint reexports vendor configuration helpers. Those helpers use caller-provided settings to build telemetry configuration, and the Datadog environment defaults are set only when its configuration helper is called.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to autotel-backends@2.14.14.

- Review the evidence and your use of autotel-backends@2.14.14 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 3. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 4. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 5. Low: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autotel-backends@2.14.14/package.json>)

The manifest exposes backend configuration helpers and contains no install lifecycle hook; its scripts are for development and quality checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
{
  "name": "autotel-backends",
  "version": "2.14.14",
  "description": "Vendor backend configurations for Autotel (Honeycomb, Datadog, etc.)",
  "type": "module",
  "main": "./di
```

### 6. Low: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autotel-backends@2.14.14/package.json>)

The manifest exposes backend configuration helpers and contains no install lifecycle hook; its scripts are for development and quality checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
t && npm run check-exports && npm run lint && npm run test",
    "dev": "tsdown --watch",
    "lint": "oxlint -c oxlint.json --disable-nested-config src",
    "lint:fix": "pnpm lint --fix",
    "format:check": "prettier --check src/**/*.ts"
```

### 7. Low: Suspicious Dependency Evidence
- **Category:** Dependency
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** .lpm-dependency-evidence-ef12925b-b294-406a-8b4f-cf7ea1db0d72/0/npm-linux/package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autotel-backends@2.14.14/.lpm-dependency-evidence-ef12925b-b294-406a-8b4f-cf7ea1db0d72/0/npm-linux/package.json>)

The inspected dependencies expose telemetry and logging APIs through their package entrypoints; their inspected manifests and entrypoints show no install-time behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
{
  "name": "autotel",
  "version": "8.4.1",
  "description": "Write Once, Observe Anywhere",
  "main": "./dist/index.js",
  "types": "./dist/index.d.ts",
  "type": "module",
  "si
```

### 8. Low: Suspicious Dependency Evidence
- **Category:** Dependency
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** .lpm-dependency-evidence-ef12925b-b294-406a-8b4f-cf7ea1db0d72/0/npm-linux/dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autotel-backends@2.14.14/.lpm-dependency-evidence-ef12925b-b294-406a-8b4f-cf7ea1db0d72/0/npm-linux/dist/index.js>)

The inspected dependencies expose telemetry and logging APIs through their package entrypoints; their inspected manifests and entrypoints show no install-time behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
import { $ as getEventQueue, A as AUTOTEL_SAMPLING_TAIL_KEEP, B as createLinkFromHeaders, D as AUTOTEL_DEBUG_BAGGAGE_KEY, G as markForceKept, H as extractLinksFromBatch, J as createTraceCont
```

### 9. Low: Suspicious Dependency Evidence
- **Category:** Dependency
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** .lpm-dependency-evidence-ef12925b-b294-406a-8b4f-cf7ea1db0d72/0/npm-linux/dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autotel-backends@2.14.14/.lpm-dependency-evidence-ef12925b-b294-406a-8b4f-cf7ea1db0d72/0/npm-linux/dist/index.cjs>)

The inspected dependencies expose telemetry and logging APIs through their package entrypoints; their inspected manifests and entrypoints show no install-time behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Object.defineProperty(exports, Symbol.toStringTag, { value: 'Module' });
const require_rolldown_runtime = require("./rolldown-runtime-AN5ru5iW.cjs");
const require_init = require("./init-s2E
```

### 10. Low: Suspicious Dependency Evidence
- **Category:** Dependency
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** .lpm-dependency-evidence-ef12925b-b294-406a-8b4f-cf7ea1db0d72/1/npm-linux/package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autotel-backends@2.14.14/.lpm-dependency-evidence-ef12925b-b294-406a-8b4f-cf7ea1db0d72/1/npm-linux/package.json>)

The inspected dependencies expose telemetry and logging APIs through their package entrypoints; their inspected manifests and entrypoints show no install-time behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
{
  "name": "@opentelemetry/exporter-logs-otlp-http",
  "version": "0.300.0",
  "description": "OpenTelemetry Collector Logs Exporter allows user to send collected logs to the Open
```

### 11. Low: Suspicious Dependency Evidence
- **Category:** Dependency
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** .lpm-dependency-evidence-ef12925b-b294-406a-8b4f-cf7ea1db0d72/1/npm-linux/dist/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autotel-backends@2.14.14/.lpm-dependency-evidence-ef12925b-b294-406a-8b4f-cf7ea1db0d72/1/npm-linux/dist/index.mjs>)

The inspected dependencies expose telemetry and logging APIs through their package entrypoints; their inspected manifests and entrypoints show no install-time behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
import { OTLPLogExporter } from "#platform";
export { OTLPLogExporter };
```

### 12. Low: Suspicious Dependency Evidence
- **Category:** Dependency
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** .lpm-dependency-evidence-ef12925b-b294-406a-8b4f-cf7ea1db0d72/1/npm-linux/dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autotel-backends@2.14.14/.lpm-dependency-evidence-ef12925b-b294-406a-8b4f-cf7ea1db0d72/1/npm-linux/dist/index.cjs>)

The inspected dependencies expose telemetry and logging APIs through their package entrypoints; their inspected manifests and entrypoints show no install-time behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Object.defineProperty(exports, Symbol.toStringTag, { value: "Module" });
let _platform = require("#platform");
Object.defineProperty(exports, "OTLPLogExporter", {
	enumerable: true
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 3
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 4
- **Development dependencies:** 4
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 7

### Published dependency entries
- @opentelemetry/exporter-logs-otlp-http \>=0.223.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/sdk-logs \>=0.223.0 (Dependency)
- autotel 8.4.1 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/exporter-metrics-otlp-http \>=0.223.0 (PeerDependency)
- @opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http \>=0.223.0 (PeerDependency)
- @opentelemetry/sdk-metrics \>=2.12.0 (PeerDependency)
- google-auth-library \>=10.9.1 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** autotel-backends
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.14.14
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-10-22T08:33:13.490Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-22T08:36:51.420Z
- **Known versions:** 28
- **Latest version:** 2.14.14
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Vendor backend configurations for Autotel (Honeycomb, Datadog, etc.)
- **Author:** Jag Reehal \<jag@jagreehal.com\> (https://jagreehal.com)
- **Maintainers:** jagreehal
- **Keywords:** opentelemetry, otel, autotel, backend, honeycomb, datadog, google-cloud, gcp, configuration, observability, tracing, telemetry
- **Artifact files:** 36
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 98,276 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/autotel-backends/v/2.14.14>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/jagreehal/autotel>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/jagreehal/autotel#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/jagreehal/autotel/issues>)
