For AI agents: A markdown version of this page is available at https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/trace_collection/custom_instrumentation/opentracing.md. A documentation index is available at /llms.txt.

If OpenTelemetry or ddtrace custom instrumentation doesn’t work for you, each of the supported languages also has support for sending OpenTracing data to Datadog. OpenTracing is archived and the project is unsupported.

Read more for your language:

Set up your application to send traces using OpenTracing.