The OpenTelemetry project combines the OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects to provide standardized APIs, libraries, and tools for capturing distributed request traces and metrics from applications. Datadog supports this project and offers out-of-the-box instrumentation using its tracing libraries. A new Python exporter has been introduced for sending traces from instrumented Python applications to Datadog, with support for exporting metrics coming soon. OpenTelemetry exporters are libraries that transform and send data to one or more destinations. The Datadog exporter enables seamless integration of the OpenTelemetry tracing library into an application and connection to other applications already instrumented with either OpenTelemetry or Datadog libraries.