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title: "Instrumentation references | Grafana Tempo documentation"
description: "Instrumentation references Check out these resources for help instrumenting tracing with your favorite languages. Most of these guides include complete end-to-end examples with Grafana, Loki, and Tempo."
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# Instrumentation references

Check out these resources for help instrumenting tracing with your favorite languages. Most of these guides include complete end-to-end examples with Grafana, Loki, and Tempo.

## OpenTelemetry

- [OpenTelemetry Language Specific Instrumentation](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/)

## Jaeger

- [Jaeger Language Specific Instrumentation](https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/client-libraries/)

## Zipkin

- [Zipkin Language Specific Instrumentation](https://zipkin.io/pages/tracers_instrumentation.html)

## Grafana Blog

- [Java Spring Boot Auto-Instrumentation](/blog/2021/02/03/auto-instrumenting-a-java-spring-boot-application-for-traces-and-logs-using-opentelemetry-and-grafana-tempo/)
- [Go + OpenMetrics Exemplars](/blog/2020/11/09/trace-discovery-in-grafana-tempo-using-prometheus-exemplars-loki-2.0-queries-and-more/)
- [.NET](/blog/2021/02/11/instrumenting-a-.net-web-api-using-opentelemetry-tempo-and-grafana-cloud/)
- [Python](/blog/2021/05/04/get-started-with-distributed-tracing-and-grafana-tempo-using-foobar-a-demo-written-in-python/)

## Community Resources

- [NodeJS](https://github.com/mnadeem/nodejs-opentelemetry-tempo)
- [Java Spring Boot](https://github.com/mnadeem/boot-opentelemetry-tempo)
- [Python](https://github.com/dgzlopes/foobar-demo)