diff --git a/chromadb/server/fastapi/__init__.py b/chromadb/server/fastapi/__init__.py
index b66bf33bda6..647cc70d777 100644
--- a/chromadb/server/fastapi/__init__.py
+++ b/chromadb/server/fastapi/__init__.py
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 from starlette.requests import Request
 
 import logging
+from chromadb.telemetry.opentelemetry.fastapi import instrument_fastapi
 from chromadb.types import Database, Tenant
 from chromadb.telemetry.product import ServerContext, ProductTelemetryClient
 from chromadb.telemetry.opentelemetry import (
@@ -248,6 +249,7 @@ def __init__(self, settings: Settings):
         self._app.include_router(self.router)
 
         use_route_names_as_operation_ids(self._app)
+        instrument_fastapi(self._app)
 
     def app(self) -> fastapi.FastAPI:
         return self._app
diff --git a/chromadb/telemetry/opentelemetry/fastapi.py b/chromadb/telemetry/opentelemetry/fastapi.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..34825794555
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chromadb/telemetry/opentelemetry/fastapi.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+from typing import List, Optional
+from fastapi import FastAPI
+from opentelemetry.instrumentation.fastapi import FastAPIInstrumentor
+
+
+def instrument_fastapi(app: FastAPI, excluded_urls: Optional[List[str]] = None) -> None:
+    """Instrument FastAPI to emit OpenTelemetry spans."""
+    FastAPIInstrumentor.instrument_app(
+        app, excluded_urls=",".join(excluded_urls) if excluded_urls else None
+    )
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 04d7e79c27a..cdeeb8aed20 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ dependencies = [
   'onnxruntime >= 1.14.1',
   'opentelemetry-api>=1.2.0',
   'opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc>=1.2.0',
+  'opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi>=0.41b0',
   'opentelemetry-sdk>=1.2.0',
   'tokenizers >= 0.13.2',
   'pypika >= 0.48.9',
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4ad9f29aeb2..2932cdd91d4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ numpy>=1.22.4; python_version >= '3.8'
 onnxruntime>=1.14.1
 opentelemetry-api>=1.2.0
 opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc>=1.2.0
+opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi>=0.41b0
 opentelemetry-sdk>=1.2.0
 overrides==7.3.1
 posthog==2.4.0