EDOT Python Instrumentation
Read the setup guide before making changes:
Guidelines
- Install
elastic-opentelemetryvia pip (add torequirements.txtor equivalent) - Run
edot-bootstrap --action=installduring image build to install auto-instrumentation packages for detected libraries - Wrap the application entrypoint with
opentelemetry-instrument— e.g.opentelemetry-instrument gunicorn app:apporopentelemetry-instrument python app.py. Without this, no telemetry is collected - Set exactly three required environment variables:
- OTEL_SERVICE_NAME - OTEL_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>"
- Do NOT set
OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER,OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER, orOTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER— the defaults are already correct - Do NOT add code-level SDK setup (no
TracerProvider, noconfigure_azure_monitor, etc.) —opentelemetry-instrumenthandles everything - Never run both classic
elastic-apmand EDOT on the same application
Examples
See the EDOT Python setup guide for complete examples.