Automatic

If applicable a language specific implementation of OpenTelemetry will provide a way to instrument your application without touching your source code. While the underlying mechanism depends on the language, at a minimum this will add the OpenTelemetry API and SDK capabilities to your application. Additionally they may add a set of Instrumentation Libraries and exporter dependencies.

Configuration is available via environment variables and possibly language specific means such as system properties in Java. At a minimum, a service name must be configured to identify the service being instrumented. A variety of other configuration options are available and may include:

• Data source specific configuration
• Exporter configuration
• Propagator configuration
• Resource configuration

Automatic instrumentation is available for the following languages:

• .NET
• Java
• JavaScript
• PHP
• Python