diff --git a/forms-flow-api-utils/src/formsflow_api_utils/utils/__init__.py b/forms-flow-api-utils/src/formsflow_api_utils/utils/__init__.py
index c580c797c..9b993da41 100644
--- a/forms-flow-api-utils/src/formsflow_api_utils/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/forms-flow-api-utils/src/formsflow_api_utils/utils/__init__.py
@@ -60,3 +60,4 @@
 from .sentry import init_sentry
 from .formio import generate_formio_patch_request
 from .test_utils import get_token
+from .telemetry import setup_tracing
diff --git a/forms-flow-api-utils/src/formsflow_api_utils/utils/telemetry.py b/forms-flow-api-utils/src/formsflow_api_utils/utils/telemetry.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6b2619ca5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/forms-flow-api-utils/src/formsflow_api_utils/utils/telemetry.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+"""This exposes Opentelemetry service."""
+
+import os
+
+from opentelemetry import trace
+from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc.trace_exporter import (
+    OTLPSpanExporter,
+)
+from opentelemetry.instrumentation.flask import FlaskInstrumentor
+from opentelemetry.instrumentation.requests import RequestsInstrumentor
+from opentelemetry.sdk.resources import Resource
+from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
+from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor
+
+
+def setup_tracing(app, service_name):
+    """Sets up OpenTelemetry tracing for the application."""
+    # Check if OpenTelemetry tracing is enabled
+    if os.getenv("ENABLE_OPENTELEMETRY", "false").lower() != "true":
+        app.logger.info("OpenTelemetry tracing is disabled.")
+        return
+
+    resource = Resource.create({"service.name": service_name})
+    trace_provider = TracerProvider(resource=resource)
+    trace.set_tracer_provider(trace_provider)
+
+    # Configure the OTLP exporter to send data to the OpenTelemetry Collector
+    otlp_endpoint = os.getenv("OTLP_ENDPOINT")
+    otlp_exporter = OTLPSpanExporter(endpoint=otlp_endpoint, insecure=True)
+
+    # Add the OTLP exporter to the tracer provider
+    otlp_span_processor = BatchSpanProcessor(otlp_exporter)
+    trace_provider.add_span_processor(otlp_span_processor)
+
+    FlaskInstrumentor().instrument_app(app)
+    RequestsInstrumentor().instrument()