diff --git a/backend/pyproject.toml b/backend/pyproject.toml
index 09eb5988..33c8a4d5 100644
--- a/backend/pyproject.toml
+++ b/backend/pyproject.toml
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ dependencies = [
     "langgraph-api",
     "fastapi",
     "google-genai",
+    "opentelemetry-api",
+    "opentelemetry-sdk",
+    "opentelemetry-exporter-otlp",
+    "opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi",
 ]
 
 
diff --git a/backend/src/agent/app.py b/backend/src/agent/app.py
index f20f6ed3..e382c60d 100644
--- a/backend/src/agent/app.py
+++ b/backend/src/agent/app.py
@@ -2,10 +2,33 @@
 import pathlib
 from fastapi import FastAPI, Response
 from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles
+import fastapi.exceptions
+from opentelemetry import trace
+from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
+from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor
+from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter
+from opentelemetry.instrumentation.fastapi import FastAPIInstrumentor
 
 # Define the FastAPI app
 app = FastAPI()
 
+# Configure OpenTelemetry
+trace.set_tracer_provider(TracerProvider())
+tracer = trace.get_tracer(__name__)
+
+# Configure OTLP exporter
+# Ensure an OTLP endpoint is available, e.g., from an OpenTelemetry Collector
+# For local testing, you might run a collector in Docker:
+# docker run -d -p 4317:4317 -p 4318:4318 otel/opentelemetry-collector:latest
+otlp_exporter = OTLPSpanExporter(
+    # endpoint="http://localhost:4317",  # Uncomment and set if your collector is not on localhost
+    # insecure=True  # Set to False if using TLS
+)
+trace.get_tracer_provider().add_span_processor(BatchSpanProcessor(otlp_exporter))
+
+# Instrument FastAPI
+FastAPIInstrumentor.instrument_app(app)
+
 
 def create_frontend_router(build_dir="../frontend/dist"):
     """Creates a router to serve the React frontend.