observability-edot-python-instrument

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 " or "Authorization=Bearer " 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.