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slug: /apm/traces/get-started-transaction-tracing/opentelemetry-instrumentation
title: Instrument your application with OpenTelemetry
description: OpenTelemetry provides a wide range of ready to use componentry to get you started with distributed tracing.
canonical: https://www.sumologic.com/help/docs/apm/traces/get-started-transaction-tracing/opentelemetry-instrumentation/
---

:::tip
Looking for our OTEL collector? The [Sumo Logic Distribution for OpenTelemetry Collector](/docs/send-data/opentelemetry-collector) provides a single unified agent to send Logs, Metrics, Traces, and metadata to Sumo Logic for observability.
:::

OpenTelemetry provides a wide range of ready to use componentry to get you started with distributed tracing. We recommend auto-instrumentation if you prefer not to change application code and are using the following language frameworks:

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