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@David_Beck: Hi, I’m working on implementing opentelemetry traces & metrics for python into my Prefect code. Are there any examples or references for how to structure flows and tasks with them? I was hoping to use state_handlers for referencing the current trace, but doesn’t seem to work at all.
@Kevin_Kho: Hi @David_Beck, I am unfortunately not too familiar with OpenTelemetry and I have not seen examples. I can forward this to someone in the team who knows more but maybe if you show me what you are trying I can help with that. Do you have a code sample?
@David_Beck: Well that’s the tricky part since I feel like you would need to do a deep on this to understand what I’m asking. Here’s the main documentation on the page anyways. I might have an idea for finding a work around, so I will continue to experiment.
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@Tyler_Wanner: Hi David, I’m super hype to hear that you’re working on OTel + Prefect. I haven’t seen a successful pattern for this yet but I have big hopes and dreams for the future and can’t wait to see what you get working
@David_Beck: @Tyler_Wanner thanks for the support! I’m not sure what the best route is going to be at this time; Honestly it will likely be super straightforward and not too hacky from my end. But yes I think Prefect would do well with integrations for OTel in the future!
@Tyler_Wanner: I would absolutely love to collaborate with you if I wasn’t super duper head down on some really exciting upcoming Orion stuff that’s occupying 120% of my time. Please keep me updated!!
I just got to play with the OTel Python SDK (I had previously dabbled in the js one) this week and it’s 
I love what they’re doing with that project and definitely want to see more of it in use with Prefect
@David_Beck: Hey I’ll accept that open invitation at a future date! I would be happy to collaborate and see what we can come up with. But yes I too am feeling the squeeze on some exciting projects at my company, Relativity. If I make any breakthroughs though, I’ll be sure to let you know and see about opening a PR.