Make it explicit to install distro to get auto-instrumentation working
@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ Installation
This package provides a couple of commands that help automatically instruments a program:
+.. note::
+ You need to install a distro package to get auto instrumentation working. The ``opentelemetry-distro``
+ package contains the default distro and automatically configures some of the common options for users.
+ For more info about ``opentelemetry-distro`` check `here <https://opentelemetry-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/distro/README.html>`__
+ ::
+
+ pip install opentelemetry-distro[otlp]
+
opentelemetry-bootstrap
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