diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 9658ff6..ef728a6 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -132,6 +132,39 @@ version = "1.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "9b34d609dfbaf33d6889b2b7106d3ca345eacad44200913df5ba02bfd31d2ba9"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "async-stream"
+version = "0.3.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "cd56dd203fef61ac097dd65721a419ddccb106b2d2b70ba60a6b529f03961a51"
+dependencies = [
+ "async-stream-impl",
+ "futures-core",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "async-stream-impl"
+version = "0.3.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "16e62a023e7c117e27523144c5d2459f4397fcc3cab0085af8e2224f643a0193"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.60",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "async-trait"
+version = "0.1.80"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c6fa2087f2753a7da8cc1c0dbfcf89579dd57458e36769de5ac750b4671737ca"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.60",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "atoi"
 version = "2.0.0"
@@ -156,6 +189,51 @@ version = "1.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f1fdabc7756949593fe60f30ec81974b613357de856987752631dea1e3394c80"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "axum"
+version = "0.6.20"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3b829e4e32b91e643de6eafe82b1d90675f5874230191a4ffbc1b336dec4d6bf"
+dependencies = [
+ "async-trait",
+ "axum-core",
+ "bitflags 1.3.2",
+ "bytes",
+ "futures-util",
+ "http 0.2.12",
+ "http-body 0.4.6",
+ "hyper 0.14.28",
+ "itoa",
+ "matchit",
+ "memchr",
+ "mime",
+ "percent-encoding",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "rustversion",
+ "serde",
+ "sync_wrapper",
+ "tower",
+ "tower-layer",
+ "tower-service",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "axum-core"
+version = "0.3.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "759fa577a247914fd3f7f76d62972792636412fbfd634cd452f6a385a74d2d2c"
+dependencies = [
+ "async-trait",
+ "bytes",
+ "futures-util",
+ "http 0.2.12",
+ "http-body 0.4.6",
+ "mime",
+ "rustversion",
+ "tower-layer",
+ "tower-service",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "backtrace"
 version = "0.3.71"
@@ -360,6 +438,15 @@ version = "2.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "19d374276b40fb8bbdee95aef7c7fa6b5316ec764510eb64b8dd0e2ed0d7e7f5"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "crossbeam-channel"
+version = "0.5.12"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ab3db02a9c5b5121e1e42fbdb1aeb65f5e02624cc58c43f2884c6ccac0b82f95"
+dependencies = [
+ "crossbeam-utils",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "crossbeam-queue"
 version = "0.3.11"
@@ -632,6 +719,37 @@ version = "0.28.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "4271d37baee1b8c7e4b708028c57d816cf9d2434acb33a549475f78c181f6253"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "glob"
+version = "0.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d2fabcfbdc87f4758337ca535fb41a6d701b65693ce38287d856d1674551ec9b"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "h2"
+version = "0.3.26"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "81fe527a889e1532da5c525686d96d4c2e74cdd345badf8dfef9f6b39dd5f5e8"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "fnv",
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-sink",
+ "futures-util",
+ "http 0.2.12",
+ "indexmap 2.2.6",
+ "slab",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-util",
+ "tracing",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "hashbrown"
+version = "0.12.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8a9ee70c43aaf417c914396645a0fa852624801b24ebb7ae78fe8272889ac888"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hashbrown"
 version = "0.14.3"
@@ -648,7 +766,7 @@ version = "0.8.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "e8094feaf31ff591f651a2664fb9cfd92bba7a60ce3197265e9482ebe753c8f7"
 dependencies = [
- "hashbrown",
+ "hashbrown 0.14.3",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -705,6 +823,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "http"
+version = "0.2.12"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "601cbb57e577e2f5ef5be8e7b83f0f63994f25aa94d673e54a92d5c516d101f1"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "fnv",
+ "itoa",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "http"
 version = "1.1.0"
@@ -716,6 +845,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "itoa",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "http-body"
+version = "0.4.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7ceab25649e9960c0311ea418d17bee82c0dcec1bd053b5f9a66e265a693bed2"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "http 0.2.12",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "http-body"
 version = "1.0.0"
@@ -723,7 +863,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "1cac85db508abc24a2e48553ba12a996e87244a0395ce011e62b37158745d643"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
- "http",
+ "http 1.1.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -734,8 +874,8 @@ checksum = "0475f8b2ac86659c21b64320d5d653f9efe42acd2a4e560073ec61a155a34f1d"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "futures-core",
- "http",
- "http-body",
+ "http 1.1.0",
+ "http-body 1.0.0",
  "pin-project-lite",
 ]
 
@@ -751,6 +891,30 @@ version = "1.0.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "df3b46402a9d5adb4c86a0cf463f42e19994e3ee891101b1841f30a545cb49a9"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "hyper"
+version = "0.14.28"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bf96e135eb83a2a8ddf766e426a841d8ddd7449d5f00d34ea02b41d2f19eef80"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "futures-channel",
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-util",
+ "h2",
+ "http 0.2.12",
+ "http-body 0.4.6",
+ "httparse",
+ "httpdate",
+ "itoa",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "socket2",
+ "tokio",
+ "tower-service",
+ "tracing",
+ "want",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hyper"
 version = "1.3.1"
@@ -760,8 +924,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "futures-channel",
  "futures-util",
- "http",
- "http-body",
+ "http 1.1.0",
+ "http-body 1.0.0",
  "httparse",
  "httpdate",
  "itoa",
@@ -771,6 +935,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "want",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "hyper-timeout"
+version = "0.4.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bbb958482e8c7be4bc3cf272a766a2b0bf1a6755e7a6ae777f017a31d11b13b1"
+dependencies = [
+ "hyper 0.14.28",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-io-timeout",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hyper-util"
 version = "0.1.3"
@@ -780,9 +956,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "futures-channel",
  "futures-util",
- "http",
- "http-body",
- "hyper",
+ "http 1.1.0",
+ "http-body 1.0.0",
+ "hyper 1.3.1",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "socket2",
  "tokio",
@@ -824,6 +1000,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-normalization",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "indexmap"
+version = "1.9.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bd070e393353796e801d209ad339e89596eb4c8d430d18ede6a1cced8fafbd99"
+dependencies = [
+ "autocfg",
+ "hashbrown 0.12.3",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "indexmap"
 version = "2.2.6"
@@ -831,7 +1017,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "168fb715dda47215e360912c096649d23d58bf392ac62f73919e831745e40f26"
 dependencies = [
  "equivalent",
- "hashbrown",
+ "hashbrown 0.14.3",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -881,11 +1067,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "figment",
  "futures-util",
  "http-body-util",
- "hyper",
+ "hyper 1.3.1",
  "hyper-util",
  "lavina-core",
  "mgmt-api",
  "nonempty",
+ "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry-otlp",
+ "opentelemetry-semantic-conventions",
+ "opentelemetry_sdk",
  "projection-irc",
  "projection-xmpp",
  "prometheus",
@@ -895,6 +1085,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "tokio",
  "tracing",
+ "tracing-opentelemetry",
  "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
@@ -967,6 +1158,12 @@ version = "0.4.21"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "90ed8c1e510134f979dbc4f070f87d4313098b704861a105fe34231c70a3901c"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "matchit"
+version = "0.7.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0e7465ac9959cc2b1404e8e2367b43684a6d13790fe23056cc8c6c5a6b7bcb94"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "md-5"
 version = "0.10.6"
@@ -1120,6 +1317,89 @@ version = "1.19.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3fdb12b2476b595f9358c5161aa467c2438859caa136dec86c26fdd2efe17b92"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "opentelemetry"
+version = "0.22.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "900d57987be3f2aeb70d385fff9b27fb74c5723cc9a52d904d4f9c807a0667bf"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-sink",
+ "js-sys",
+ "once_cell",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "thiserror",
+ "urlencoding",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "opentelemetry-otlp"
+version = "0.15.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1a016b8d9495c639af2145ac22387dcb88e44118e45320d9238fbf4e7889abcb"
+dependencies = [
+ "async-trait",
+ "futures-core",
+ "http 0.2.12",
+ "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry-proto",
+ "opentelemetry-semantic-conventions",
+ "opentelemetry_sdk",
+ "prost",
+ "thiserror",
+ "tokio",
+ "tonic",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "opentelemetry-proto"
+version = "0.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3a8fddc9b68f5b80dae9d6f510b88e02396f006ad48cac349411fbecc80caae4"
+dependencies = [
+ "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry_sdk",
+ "prost",
+ "tonic",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "opentelemetry-semantic-conventions"
+version = "0.14.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f9ab5bd6c42fb9349dcf28af2ba9a0667f697f9bdcca045d39f2cec5543e2910"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "opentelemetry_sdk"
+version = "0.22.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9e90c7113be649e31e9a0f8b5ee24ed7a16923b322c3c5ab6367469c049d6b7e"
+dependencies = [
+ "async-trait",
+ "crossbeam-channel",
+ "futures-channel",
+ "futures-executor",
+ "futures-util",
+ "glob",
+ "once_cell",
+ "opentelemetry",
+ "ordered-float",
+ "percent-encoding",
+ "rand",
+ "thiserror",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-stream",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "ordered-float"
+version = "4.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a76df7075c7d4d01fdcb46c912dd17fba5b60c78ea480b475f2b6ab6f666584e"
+dependencies = [
+ "num-traits",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "overload"
 version = "0.1.1"
@@ -1346,6 +1626,29 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "prost"
+version = "0.12.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d0f5d036824e4761737860779c906171497f6d55681139d8312388f8fe398922"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "prost-derive",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "prost-derive"
+version = "0.12.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "19de2de2a00075bf566bee3bd4db014b11587e84184d3f7a791bc17f1a8e9e48"
+dependencies = [
+ "anyhow",
+ "itertools",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.60",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "proto-irc"
 version = "0.0.2-dev"
@@ -1468,10 +1771,10 @@ dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "futures-core",
  "futures-util",
- "http",
- "http-body",
+ "http 1.1.0",
+ "http-body 1.0.0",
  "http-body-util",
- "hyper",
+ "hyper 1.3.1",
  "hyper-util",
  "ipnet",
  "js-sys",
@@ -1587,6 +1890,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "untrusted",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rustversion"
+version = "1.0.15"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "80af6f9131f277a45a3fba6ce8e2258037bb0477a67e610d3c1fe046ab31de47"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ryu"
 version = "1.0.17"
@@ -1821,7 +2130,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures-util",
  "hashlink",
  "hex",
- "indexmap",
+ "indexmap 2.2.6",
  "log",
  "memchr",
  "once_cell",
@@ -2108,6 +2417,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.48.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tokio-io-timeout"
+version = "1.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "30b74022ada614a1b4834de765f9bb43877f910cc8ce4be40e89042c9223a8bf"
+dependencies = [
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-macros"
 version = "2.2.0"
@@ -2129,6 +2448,31 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tokio-stream"
+version = "0.1.15"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "267ac89e0bec6e691e5813911606935d77c476ff49024f98abcea3e7b15e37af"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures-core",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tokio-util"
+version = "0.7.10"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5419f34732d9eb6ee4c3578b7989078579b7f039cbbb9ca2c4da015749371e15"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-sink",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "tokio",
+ "tracing",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "toml"
 version = "0.8.12"
@@ -2156,13 +2500,40 @@ version = "0.22.11"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "fb686a972ccef8537b39eead3968b0e8616cb5040dbb9bba93007c8e07c9215f"
 dependencies = [
- "indexmap",
+ "indexmap 2.2.6",
  "serde",
  "serde_spanned",
  "toml_datetime",
  "winnow",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tonic"
+version = "0.11.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "76c4eb7a4e9ef9d4763600161f12f5070b92a578e1b634db88a6887844c91a13"
+dependencies = [
+ "async-stream",
+ "async-trait",
+ "axum",
+ "base64 0.21.7",
+ "bytes",
+ "h2",
+ "http 0.2.12",
+ "http-body 0.4.6",
+ "hyper 0.14.28",
+ "hyper-timeout",
+ "percent-encoding",
+ "pin-project",
+ "prost",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-stream",
+ "tower",
+ "tower-layer",
+ "tower-service",
+ "tracing",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tower"
 version = "0.4.13"
@@ -2171,9 +2542,13 @@ checksum = "b8fa9be0de6cf49e536ce1851f987bd21a43b771b09473c3549a6c853db37c1c"
 dependencies = [
  "futures-core",
  "futures-util",
+ "indexmap 1.9.3",
  "pin-project",
  "pin-project-lite",
+ "rand",
+ "slab",
  "tokio",
+ "tokio-util",
  "tower-layer",
  "tower-service",
  "tracing",
@@ -2235,6 +2610,24 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-core",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-opentelemetry"
+version = "0.23.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a9be14ba1bbe4ab79e9229f7f89fab8d120b865859f10527f31c033e599d2284"
+dependencies = [
+ "js-sys",
+ "once_cell",
+ "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry_sdk",
+ "smallvec",
+ "tracing",
+ "tracing-core",
+ "tracing-log",
+ "tracing-subscriber",
+ "web-time",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-subscriber"
 version = "0.3.18"
@@ -2456,6 +2849,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "wasm-bindgen",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "web-time"
+version = "1.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5a6580f308b1fad9207618087a65c04e7a10bc77e02c8e84e9b00dd4b12fa0bb"
+dependencies = [
+ "js-sys",
+ "wasm-bindgen",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "whoami"
 version = "1.5.1"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0158e42..fa04096 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ projection-irc = { path = "crates/projection-irc" }
 projection-xmpp = { path = "crates/projection-xmpp" }
 mgmt-api = { path = "crates/mgmt-api" }
 clap.workspace = true
+opentelemetry = "0.22.0"
+opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = "0.14.0"
+opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.22.1", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
+opentelemetry-otlp = "0.15.0"
+tracing-opentelemetry = "0.23.0"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 assert_matches.workspace = true
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 98c45f8..6ae8f1a 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -6,8 +6,16 @@ use std::path::Path;
 use clap::Parser;
 use figment::providers::Format;
 use figment::{providers::Toml, Figment};
+use opentelemetry::KeyValue;
+use opentelemetry_otlp::WithExportConfig;
+use opentelemetry_sdk::trace::{BatchConfig, RandomIdGenerator, Sampler, TracerProvider};
+use opentelemetry_sdk::{runtime, Resource};
+use opentelemetry_semantic_conventions::resource::SERVICE_NAME;
+use opentelemetry_semantic_conventions::SCHEMA_URL;
 use prometheus::Registry as MetricsRegistry;
 use serde::Deserialize;
+use tracing_opentelemetry::OpenTelemetryLayer;
+use tracing_subscriber::prelude::*;
 
 use lavina_core::prelude::*;
 use lavina_core::repo::Storage;
@@ -88,6 +96,22 @@ fn ctrl_c() -> Result<impl Future<Output = ()>> {
 }
 
 fn set_up_logging() -> Result<()> {
-    tracing_subscriber::fmt::init();
+    let trace_config = opentelemetry_sdk::trace::Config::default()
+        .with_sampler(Sampler::ParentBased(Box::new(Sampler::TraceIdRatioBased(1.0))))
+        .with_id_generator(RandomIdGenerator::default())
+        .with_resource(Resource::from_schema_url(
+            [KeyValue::new(SERVICE_NAME, "lavina")],
+            SCHEMA_URL,
+        ));
+    let trace_exporter = opentelemetry_otlp::new_exporter().tonic().with_endpoint("http://localhost:4317");
+    let tracer = opentelemetry_otlp::new_pipeline()
+        .tracing()
+        .with_trace_config(trace_config)
+        .with_batch_config(BatchConfig::default())
+        .with_exporter(trace_exporter)
+        .install_batch(runtime::Tokio)
+        .unwrap();
+
+    tracing_subscriber::registry().with(tracing_subscriber::fmt::layer()).with(OpenTelemetryLayer::new(tracer)).init();
     Ok(())
 }