## TL;DR

Initialize Traceloop before any other OpenTelemetry setup, and point it at the OTLP HTTP endpoint: os.environ['TRACELOOP_BASE_URL'] = 'YOUR_YOUR_OTLP_HOST_HOST' Traceloop.init(app_name='llm-tracing', telemetry_enabled=False) If you initialize OpenTelemetry first (or call Resource.create() manually), the global tracer provider and service name are already set and Traceloop will not override them, so its spans go nowhere.

## Steps

1. Initialize Traceloop before any other OpenTelemetry setup, and point it at the OTLP HTTP endpoint:

2. os.environ['TRACELOOP_BASE_URL'] = 'YOUR_YOUR_OTLP_HOST_HOST'
Traceloop.init(app_name='llm-tracing', telemetry_enabled=False)

3. If you initialize OpenTelemetry first (or call `Resource.create()` manually), the global tracer provider and service name are already set and Traceloop will not override them, so its spans go nowhere. Then find your traces by service name, call name, or span attributes rather than fixed trace IDs: the SDK may overwrite manually set IDs during ingestion. The reporter confirmed traces appeared in Instana after these changes.

## When to use

You are seeing this: Issue traceloop/openllmetry#3414 (closed, 26 comments): ### Which component is this bug for? Use this skill when you run into "🐛 Bug Report: traceloop-sdk does not work with Instana and/or OpenTelemetry".

## When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

## Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

## Why this happens

Traceloop SDK ### 📜 Description When using traceloop-sdk with Instana and/or OpenTelemetry, the integration fails due to an AttributeError.

## Sources

- YOUR_YOUR_OTLP_HOST_HOST'

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## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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