# elastic-otel-python-instrumentations

**Repository Path**: mirrors_elastic/elastic-otel-python-instrumentations

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: elastic-otel-python-instrumentations
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- **License**: Apache-2.0
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- **Created**: 2024-09-26
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-07

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## README

# Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Python instrumentations

The Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Python (EDOT Python) is a customized version of [OpenTelemetry Python](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/python).
EDOT Python makes it easier to get started using OpenTelemetry in your Python applications through strictly OpenTelemetry native means, while also providing a smooth and rich out of the box experience with [Elastic Observability](https://www.elastic.co/observability). It's an explicit goal of this distribution to introduce **no new concepts** in addition to those defined by the wider OpenTelemetry community.

With EDOT Python you have access to all the features of the OpenTelemetry Python agent plus:

* Access to improvements and bug fixes contributed by the Elastic team _before_ the changes are available upstream in OpenTelemetry repositories.
* Access to optional features that can enhance OpenTelemetry data that is being sent to Elastic.
* Elastic-specific processors that ensure optimal compatibility when exporting OpenTelemetry signal data to an Elastic backend like an Elastic Observability deployment.
* Preconfigured collection of tracing and metrics signals, applying some opinionated defaults, such as which sources are collected by default.
* Elastic-specific enhancements and integrations such as extensions to GenAI semantic conventions

## Available instrumentations

Each available instrumentation sits inside the `instrumentation` directory.

Currently we have:
- `elastic-opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai` for tracing the `openai` library

Please refer to each instrumentation `README.md` for details.

## License

This software is licensed under the Apache License, version 2 ("Apache-2.0").