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{{% docs/languages/libraries-intro "C++" %}}


## Using instrumentation libraries


When you develop an app, you might use third-party libraries and frameworks to accelerate your work. If you then
instrument your app using OpenTelemetry, you might want to avoid spending additional time to manually add traces,
logs, and metrics to the third-party libraries and frameworks you use.

Many libraries and frameworks already support OpenTelemetry or are supported through OpenTelemetry
[instrumentation](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/instrumentation/libraries/),
so that they can generate telemetry you can export to an observability back end.
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If you are instrumenting an app or service that use third-party libraries or frameworks, follow these instructions to
learn how to use natively instrumented libraries and instrumentation libraries for your dependencies.


## Use natively instrumented libraries

If a library comes with OpenTelemetry support by default, you can get traces, metrics, and logs emitted from that
library by adding and setting up the OpenTelemetry SDK with your app.

The library might require some additional configuration for the instrumentation. Go to the documentation for that
library to learn more.
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## Use instrumentation libraries

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If a library doesn't include OpenTelemetry support, you can use
[instrumentation libraries](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/glossary/#instrumentation-library)
to generate telemetry data for a library or framework.
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For example,
[NGINX instrumentation](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp-contrib/tree/main/instrumentation/nginx)
Adds OpenTelemetry distributed tracing support to nginx.
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## setup
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For setup of instrumentation library check [otel-cpp-contrib](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp-contrib/tree/main/instrumentation)
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## Available packages

A full list of instrumentation libraries available can be found in the [openTelemetry registry](https://opentelemetry.io/ecosystem/registry/?language=cpp&component=instrumentation)


## Next steps

After you've set up instrumentation libraries, you might want to add
[additional instrumentation](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/cpp/instrumentation/) to collect
custom telemetry data.

You might also want to configure an appropriate exporter to
[export your telemetry data]( https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/cpp/exporters/) to one or more
telemetry backends.