# cSpell:ignore: clickhouse
title: Tracing ClickHouse with OpenTelemetry
registryType: application integration
language: cpp
tags:
  - clickhouse
  - database
  - c++
license: Apache-2.0
description:
  ClickHouse creates `trace spans` for each query and some of the query
  execution stages, such as query planning or distributed queries.
authors:
  - name: ClickHouse Authors
    url: https://github.com/clickhouse
urls:
  repo: https://github.com/clickhouse
  website: https://clickhouse.com
  docs: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/operations/opentelemetry
createdAt: '2024-08-06'
isNative: true
