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title: "Telemetry"
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linkTitle: "Telemetry"
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weight: 1
date: 2020-11-24
---
## Overview
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minikube provides telemetry support via [OpenTelemetry tracing ](https://opentelemetry.io/about/ ) to collect trace data for `minikube start` .
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Currently, minikube supports the following exporters for tracing data:
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- [Stackdriver ](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/master/exporter/stackdriverexporter )
To collect trace data with minikube and the Stackdriver exporter, run:
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```shell
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MINIKUBE_GCP_PROJECT_ID=< project ID > minikube start --output json --trace gcp
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```
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## Contributing
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There are many exporters available via [OpenTelemetry community contributions ](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib ).
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If you would like to see additional exporters, please create an [issue ](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues ) or refer to our [contribution ](https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/contrib/ ) guidelines and submit a pull request. Thank you!