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title: OpenTelemetry .NET traces
linkTitle: Traces
description: Use OpenTelemetry .NET to collect and export trace telemetry data
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This section contains information about using OpenTelemetry .NET for tracing.

OpenTelemetry .NET provides a Tracing API and SDK to instrument, generate,
collect, and export telemetry data (traces, logs, and metrics) for analysis in
order to understand your software's behavior and performance.
