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= OpenTelemetry Component
:docTitle: OpenTelemetry
:shortname: opentelemetry
:artifactId: camel-opentelemetry
:description: Distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry
:since: 3.5
:supportLevel: Stable
//Manually maintained attributes
:camel-spring-boot-name: opentelemetry

*Since Camel {since}*

The OpenTelemetry component is used for tracing and timing incoming and
outgoing Camel messages using https://opentelemetry.io/[OpenTelemetry].

Events (spans) are captured for incoming and outgoing messages being sent
to/from Camel.

== Configuration

The configuration properties for the OpenTelemetry tracer are:

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|Option |Default |Description

|excludePatterns |  | Sets exclude pattern(s) that will disable tracing for Camel
messages that matches the pattern. The content is a Set<String> where the key is a pattern. The pattern
uses the rules from Intercept.
|encoding |false| Sets whether the header keys need to be encoded (connector specific) or not. The value is a boolean.
Dashes need for instances to be encoded for JMS property keys.

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=== Configuration

Include the `camel-opentelemetry` component in your POM, along with any specific dependencies associated with the
chosen OpenTelemetry compliant Tracer.

To explicitly configure OpenTelemetry support, instantiate the `OpenTelemetryTracer` and initialize the camel
context. You can optionally specify a `Tracer`, or alternatively it can be implicitly discovered using the
`Registry`

[source,java]
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OpenTelemetryTracer otelTracer = new OpenTelemetryTracer();
// By default it uses the DefaultTracer, but you can override it with a specific OpenTelemetry Tracer implementation.
otelTracer.setTracer(...);
// And then initialize the context
otelTracer.init(camelContext);
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