diff --git a/bin/hbase b/bin/hbase
index 496ebe1ad4b1..5f3b3261f023 100755
--- a/bin/hbase
+++ b/bin/hbase
@@ -487,6 +487,11 @@ add_jdk11_deps_to_classpath() {
   done
 }
 
+enable_trace() {
+  agent_jar=$(find lib/trace -type f -name "opentelemetry-javaagent-*")
+  HBASE_OPTS="$HBASE_OPTS -javaagent:$agent_jar $HBASE_TRACE_OPTS"
+}
+
 #Add the development env class path stuff
 if $in_dev_env; then
   add_maven_deps_to_classpath "cached_classpath.txt"
@@ -764,6 +769,11 @@ elif [ "${DEBUG}" = "true" ]; then
   echo "JDK11 jars skipped from classpath."
 fi
 
+if [[ -n "${HBASE_TRACE_OPTS}" ]]; then
+  echo "Attach opentelemetry agent to enable trace"
+  enable_trace
+fi
+
 # Have JVM dump heap if we run out of memory.  Files will be 'launch directory'
 # and are named like the following: java_pid21612.hprof. Apparently it doesn't
 # 'cost' to have this flag enabled. Its a 1.6 flag only. See:
diff --git a/conf/hbase-env.sh b/conf/hbase-env.sh
index 6cc16d8db493..b3c4bafe4b97 100644
--- a/conf/hbase-env.sh
+++ b/conf/hbase-env.sh
@@ -144,3 +144,8 @@
 
 # Additional argments passed to jshell invocation
 # export HBASE_JSHELL_ARGS="--startup DEFAULT --startup PRINTING --startup hbase_startup.jsh"
+
+# Uncomment to enable trace, you can change the options to use other exporters such as jaeger or
+# zipkin. See https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation on how to config
+# exporters and other components through system properties.
+# export HBASE_TRACE_OPTS="-Dotel.config.sampler.probability=0.1 -Dotel.exporter=logging"
diff --git a/hbase-assembly/pom.xml b/hbase-assembly/pom.xml
index 451e9f3e1f16..4ea650d82ce5 100644
--- a/hbase-assembly/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-assembly/pom.xml
@@ -339,6 +339,12 @@
       <groupId>log4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <!-- Include OpenTelemetry agent -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>io.opentelemetry.javaagent</groupId>
+      <artifactId>opentelemetry-javaagent</artifactId>
+      <classifier>all</classifier>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <profiles>
     <profile>
diff --git a/hbase-assembly/src/main/assembly/hadoop-three-compat.xml b/hbase-assembly/src/main/assembly/hadoop-three-compat.xml
index e5422f39e5f0..9780444deca8 100644
--- a/hbase-assembly/src/main/assembly/hadoop-three-compat.xml
+++ b/hbase-assembly/src/main/assembly/hadoop-three-compat.xml
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@
               <exclude>org.apache.yetus:audience-annotations</exclude>
               <exclude>org.slf4j:slf4j-api</exclude>
               <exclude>org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12</exclude>
+              <exclude>io.opentelemetry.javaagent:*</exclude>
             </excludes>
           </dependencySet>
         </dependencySets>
@@ -256,6 +257,12 @@
         <include>jakarta.jws:jakarta.jws-api</include>
       </includes>
     </dependencySet>
+    <dependencySet>
+      <outputDirectory>lib/trace</outputDirectory>
+      <includes>
+        <include>io.opentelemetry.javaagent:*</include>
+      </includes>
+    </dependencySet>
   </dependencySets>
 
 </assembly>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 77d12ac4b896..75b3c584e7ef 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1483,6 +1483,7 @@
     <junit.version>4.13</junit.version>
     <hamcrest.version>1.3</hamcrest.version>
     <opentelemetry.version>0.13.1</opentelemetry.version>
+    <opentelemetry-instrumentation.version>0.13.0</opentelemetry-instrumentation.version>
     <log4j.version>1.2.17</log4j.version>
     <mockito-core.version>2.28.2</mockito-core.version>
     <!--Internally we use a different version of protobuf. See hbase-protocol-shaded-->
@@ -2188,6 +2189,12 @@
         <artifactId>opentelemetry-sdk-testing</artifactId>
         <version>${opentelemetry.version}</version>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>io.opentelemetry.javaagent</groupId>
+        <artifactId>opentelemetry-javaagent</artifactId>
+        <version>${opentelemetry-instrumentation.version}</version>
+        <classifier>all</classifier>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.lmax</groupId>
         <artifactId>disruptor</artifactId>