---
title: "Open Source Elastic's OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-elastic-s-opentelemetry-sdk-for-net-w3f2ggfc2
source_url: https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/04/elastics-open-telemetry-net/
type: article
source: "InfoQ"
published: 2024-04-17T06:04:13.952Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:43:33.910Z
tags: [".net", "opentelemetry", "nuget"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Open Source Elastic's OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET

**[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Elastic has announced the alpha release of the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET, which includes preconfigured tracing, metrics, and logs collection. It requires adding a NuGet package reference to the project and configuring environment variables for exporting telemetry signals. However, Elastic discourages its use in production.

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Tags: [#.net](https://daily.dev/tags/.net), [#opentelemetry](https://daily.dev/tags/opentelemetry), [#nuget](https://daily.dev/tags/nuget)

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