EDOT Python Instrumentation

Read the setup guide before making changes:

• EDOT Python setup

• EDOT Python configuration

• OpenTelemetry Python auto-instrumentation

Guidelines

• Install elastic-opentelemetry via pip (add to requirements.txt or equivalent)

• Run edot-bootstrap --action=install during image build to install auto-instrumentation packages for detected libraries

• Wrap the application entrypoint with opentelemetry-instrument — e.g. opentelemetry-instrument gunicorn app:app or opentelemetry-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 , or OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER — the defaults are already correct

• Do NOT add code-level SDK setup (no TracerProvider , no configure_azure_monitor , etc.) — opentelemetry-instrument handles everything

• Never run both classic elastic-apm and EDOT on the same application

Examples

See the EDOT Python setup guide for complete examples.