
5 min
FastAPI Monitoring with OpenTelemetry in Production
Monitor FastAPI routes with request metrics and OpenTelemetry traces. Check latency, errors, and downstream work before setting alerts.
fastapiopentelemetry
Engineering insights on observability, distributed tracing, and production debugging.

Monitor FastAPI routes with request metrics and OpenTelemetry traces. Check latency, errors, and downstream work before setting alerts.

Set up FastAPI tracing with OpenTelemetry. Connect request, SQLAlchemy, and HTTPX spans, then verify trace context across services.

Use this production observability checklist for FastAPI applications to verify request metrics, traces, errors, background tasks, alerts, and releases.