# You don't need to pick one: how Sentry and OpenTelemetry work together

DevFeed: [You don't need to pick one: how Sentry and OpenTelemetry work together](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/you-don-t-need-to-pick-one-how-sentry-and-opentelemetry-work-together-24110.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.sentry.io/sentry-opentelemetry-work-together/>)

Author: Lazar Nikolov

Published: 2026-05-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Sentry Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/sentry-blog.md>)

Topics: [OpenTelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opentelemetry.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tracing.md>), [Traces](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/traces.md>), [context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/context.md>), [Instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/instrumentation.md>), [React](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react.md>), [SDKs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdks.md>)

Tags: [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instrumentation.md>), [opentelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opentelemetry.md>), [sentry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sentry.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>), [traces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traces.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tracing.md>), [w3c](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/w3c.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how to combine Sentry and OpenTelemetry in a web application. It recommends keeping OpenTelemetry for backend instrumentation, using the Sentry SDK on the frontend for browser context and application features, and exporting backend traces and logs to Sentry through OTLP directly or through an OpenTelemetry Collector. Sentry's OTLP ingest supports traces and logs, but not metrics at the time described.

## Source excerpt

Use Sentry on the frontend, keep OpenTelemetry on the backend, and choose direct OTLP or Collector forwarding for OTLP events.