Python

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Required dependencies

Install the API from PyPI using pip:

pip install opentelemetry-api

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Creating Spans

To create a span, use the tracer object from the opentelemetry.trace module. The tracer object is a factory for creating spans.

from opentelemetry import trace

tracer = trace.get_tracer(__name__)

def my_function():
    with tracer.start_as_current_span("foo") as span:
        print("Hello world!")

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Additional information

For more use cases, see the OpenTelemetry Python API documentation.