These examples show how to use OpenTelemetry to create and export Spans. There are two different examples:

• basic_trace: Shows how to configure a SpanProcessor and Exporter, and how to create a tracer and span.
• resources: Shows how to add resource information to a Provider.

The source files of these examples are available :scm_web:`here <docs/examples/basic_tracer/>`.

pip install opentelemetry-api
pip install opentelemetry-sdk

python <example_name>.py

The output will be shown in the console.

• OpenTelemetry
• :doc:`../../api/trace`