Welcome to Google Cloud OpenTelemetry’s documentation!¶
This documentation describes OpenTelemetry Python exporters, propagators, and resource detectors for Google Cloud Platform. Development for these packages takes place on Github.
To get started with instrumentation in Google Cloud, see Generate traces and metrics with Python.
To learn more about instrumentation and observability, including opinionated recommendations for Google Cloud Observability, visit Instrumentation and observability.
Installation¶
To install the Cloud Trace exporter:
pip install opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-trace
To install Cloud Monitoring exporter:
pip install opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-monitoring
To install the GCP resource detector:
pip install opentelemetry-resourcedetector-gcp
To install the GCP trace propagator:
pip install opentelemetry-propagator-gcp
Exporters
Examples