To get distributed tracing data into Lightstep Observability, you need to instrument your code to send telemetry data to Lightstep Observability Microsatellites. Lightstep Observability supports OpenTelemetry as the way to get that data from your app as requests travel through its many services and other infrastructure.

Read all our OpenTelemetry docs to learn about using OpenTelemetry with Lightstep.