Instrument a Python application with the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) Python agent for automatic tracing, metrics, and logs. Use when adding observability to a Python service that has no existing APM agent.
Read the setup guide before making changes:
elastic-opentelemetry via pip (add to requirements.txt or equivalent)edot-bootstrap --action=install during image build to install auto-instrumentation packages for detected
librariesopentelemetry-instrument — e.g. opentelemetry-instrument gunicorn app:app or
opentelemetry-instrument python app.py. Without this, no telemetry is collectedOTEL_SERVICE_NAMEOTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT — must be the managed OTLP endpoint or EDOT Collector URL. Never use an APM
Server URL (no apm-server, no :8200, no /intake/v2/events)OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS — "Authorization=ApiKey <key>" or "Authorization=Bearer <token>"OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER, OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER, or OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER — the defaults are already
correctTracerProvider, no configure_azure_monitor, etc.) —
opentelemetry-instrument handles everythingelastic-apm and EDOT on the same applicationSee the EDOT Python setup guide for complete examples.