# Does Sentry support distributed tracing?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"><em>We're running a microservices architecture and tracing requests across services has been a pain point. Does Sentry handle distributed tracing well? We're also already using OpenTelemetry, wondering if we'd have to re-instrument everything or if it works with our existing setup.</em></p>

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Yes, and the OpenTelemetry question is probably the more useful one to answer first: No, you don&#39;t need to re-instrument. Sentry supports OTLP, so you can point your existing OTel setup at Sentry and your traces will show up without touching your instrumentation. 
Docs here: https://docs.sentry.io/concepts/otlp/


On distributed tracing: it follows requests across services end-to-end, so you can see exactly where a transaction slowed down or broke and which service caused it. In a microservices setup the useful part is that errors don&#39;t show up in isolation, you get the full request path that led to them. And if you&#39;re already using Sentry for errors, that context lives in the same place. Same issue, same trace.

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