# OTel distributed tracing can be analyzed with Elastic's continuous profiling

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/otel-distributed-tracing-can-be-analyzed-with-elastics-continuous-profiling/363244>\
**Category:** Elastic Observability\
**Created:** [July 16, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/otel-distributed-tracing-can-be-analyzed-with-elastics-continuous-profiling/363244 "2024-07-16T20:18:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/otel-distributed-tracing-can-be-analyzed-with-elastics-continuous-profiling/363244/1 "2024-07-16T20:18:02Z")

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With Elastic's universal profiling, you can analyze OTel based traces. Check out this article showing how this works with Java based OTel traces. [Beyond the trace: Pinpointing performance culprits with continuous profiling and distributed tracing correlation — Elastic Observability Labs](https://www.elastic.co/observability-labs/blog/continuous-profiling-distributed-tracing-correlation)