# One-command OpenTelemetry setup on Linux hosts

DevFeed: [One-command OpenTelemetry setup on Linux hosts](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/one-command-opentelemetry-setup-on-linux-hosts-32582.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/packaging-first-repo/>)

Author: OpenTelemetry Authors; Docs CC BY

Published: 2026-07-23T16:51:56Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog on OpenTelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-on-opentelemetry.md>)

Topics: [OpenTelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opentelemetry.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/automation.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [aws-lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-lambda.md>), [environment-variables](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/environment-variables.md>), [installation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/installation.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [net](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/net.md>), [node-js](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/node-js.md>), [opentelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opentelemetry.md>), [packaging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/packaging.md>), [processes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/processes.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [setup](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/setup.md>)

## AI overview

OpenTelemetry introduces a package-based setup for instrumenting Java, .NET, Node.js, and Python applications running directly on Linux hosts. The package installs the OpenTelemetry Injector, SDKs, and auto-instrumentation packages, which activate instrumentation at process startup without application code or deployment-script changes.

## Source excerpt

OpenTelemetry as system dependency Setting up OpenTelemetry for your applications and systems depends on where those apps and systems run. Some are very automated, especially Kubernetes, thanks to the OpenTelemetry Operator, or AWS Lambda, with the OpenTelemetry Lambda layers. But the countless Java, .NET, Node.js, and Python apps running directly on Linux hosts have had no such automation. Instrumenting those has meant downloading agents by hand and wiring up environment variables yourself. At OTel Unplugged EU in Brussels this February, one ask kept coming up: clear packaging, installation, and usage paths. You asked for: