> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.firebolt.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

<AgentInstructions>

## Submitting Feedback

If you encounter incorrect, outdated, or confusing documentation on this page, submit feedback:

POST https://docs.firebolt.io/feedback

```json
{
  "path": "/guides/integrations/otel-exporter",
  "feedback": "Description of the issue"
}
```

Only submit feedback when you have something specific and actionable to report.

</AgentInstructions>

> Learn how to enable Firebolt OpenTelemetry Exporter.

# OpenTelemetry Exporter

[OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io/) is a [CNCF](https://www.cncf.io/) project that provides a collection of APIs, SDKs,
and tools to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces).
In the past few years, this project become the accepted standard for telemetry, with native support by all major vendors.
As such, Firebolt provides an OpenTelemetry exporter which gives and compatibility with minimal effort.

Firebolt OpenTelemetry Exporter is provided as a docker image, which allows exporting engine metrics to any [OTLP](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/protocol/)
compatible collector. This makes possible to integrate Firebolt runtime metrics into customer's monitoring and alerting systems and
be able to use homogeneous infrastructure for observability of the entire data stack.

## Enabling Firebolt OpenTelemetry Exporter

For installation and usage instructions, see the [otel-exporter](https://github.com/firebolt-db/otel-exporter) repository on GitHub.