[!WARNING] The Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry .NET is not yet recommended for production use. Functionality may be changed or removed in future releases. Alpha releases are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.
We welcome your feedback! You can reach us by opening a GitHub issue or starting a discussion thread on the Elastic Discuss forum.
The Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry .NET (EDOT .NET) provides a zero code change extension of the OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET. EDOT .NET makes it easier to get started using OpenTelemetry in your .NET applications through strictly OpenTelemetry native means, while also providing a smooth and rich out of the box experience with Elastic Observability. It's an explicit goal of this distribution to introduce no new concepts in addition to those defined by the wider OpenTelemetry community.
[!NOTE] For more details about OpenTelemetry distributions in general, visit the OpenTelemetry documentation.
With EDOT .NET you have access to all the features of the OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET plus:
Ready to try out the distro? Follow the step-by-step instructions in Get started.
To get started with the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry .NET, you must add the
Elastic.OpenTelemetry
NuGet package to your project. This can be achieved by adding the package reference to your project file.
<PackageReference Include="Elastic.OpenTelemetry" Version="<LATEST>" />
[!NOTE] Replace the
<LATEST>
placeholder with the latest available package from NuGet.org.