# OpenTelemetry Log Appender for tracing - Example This example shows how to use the opentelemetry-appender-tracing crate, which is a [logging appender](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/specification/glossary.md#log-appender--bridge) that bridges logs from the [tracing crate](https://tracing.rs/tracing/#events) to OpenTelemetry. The example setups a LoggerProvider with stdout exporter, so logs are emitted to stdout. ## Usage Run the following, and Logs emitted using [tracing](https://docs.rs/tracing/latest/tracing/) will be written out to stdout. ```shell cargo run ```