Monitoring
python
Intermediate
OpenTelemetry FastAPI Auto-Instrumentation
Auto-instrument a FastAPI app with OpenTelemetry traces exported to OTLP.
python
from opentelemetry import trace
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor
from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter
from opentelemetry.instrumentation.fastapi import FastAPIInstrumentor
provider = TracerProvider()
provider.add_span_processor(BatchSpanProcessor(OTLPSpanExporter(endpoint="http://otel-collector:4318")))
trace.set_tracer_provider(provider)
from fastapi import FastAPI
app = FastAPI()
FastAPIInstrumentor.instrument_app(app)Prerequisites
- opentelemetry-sdk
- opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi
Pro Tips
- → Ship traces to Grafana Tempo or Jaeger via OTLP.
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Module Info
- Language
- python
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 5 min
- Published
- Feb 2026
- License
- Commercial License
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