diff --git a/.vscode/cspell.json b/.vscode/cspell.json
index f934b304cb8f..a6a998c3109f 100644
--- a/.vscode/cspell.json
+++ b/.vscode/cspell.json
@@ -987,7 +987,8 @@
         "msecs",
         "mycontainer",
         "semconv",
-        "updown"
+        "updown",
+        "uvicorn"
       ]
     },
     {
diff --git a/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/CHANGELOG.md b/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/CHANGELOG.md
index 8ca743f46635..61b6c5feaa30 100644
--- a/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 
 ### Other Changes
 
+- Updated FastAPI sample
+    ([#34738](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/pull/34738))
+
 ## 1.0.0b23 (2024-02-28)
 
 ### Features Added
diff --git a/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/samples/traces/sample_fastapi.py b/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/samples/traces/sample_fastapi.py
index 193f39f99394..649312ca8336 100644
--- a/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/samples/traces/sample_fastapi.py
+++ b/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/samples/traces/sample_fastapi.py
@@ -8,34 +8,49 @@
 https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/tree/main/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-flask
 """
 # mypy: disable-error-code="attr-defined"
+import os
+import fastapi
+import uvicorn
+
 from azure.monitor.opentelemetry.exporter import AzureMonitorTraceExporter
-from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI
-from httpx import AsyncClient
 from opentelemetry import trace
+from opentelemetry.instrumentation.fastapi import FastAPIInstrumentor
 from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
 from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor
 
-app = FastAPI()
+# This method instruments all of the FastAPI module.
+# You can also use FastAPIInstrumentor().instrument_app(app) to instrument a specific app after it is created.
+FastAPIInstrumentor().instrument()
+app = fastapi.FastAPI()
 
+trace.set_tracer_provider(TracerProvider())
 tracer = trace.get_tracer(__name__)
+span_processor = BatchSpanProcessor(
+    AzureMonitorTraceExporter.from_connection_string(
+        os.environ["APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_CONNECTION_STRING"]
+    )
+)
+trace.get_tracer_provider().add_span_processor(span_processor)
 
-async def get_client():
-    async with AsyncClient() as client:
-        yield client
-
+# Requests made to fastapi endpoints will be automatically captured
 @app.get("/")
-async def read_root(client=Depends(get_client)):
-    with tracer.start_as_current_span("read_root"):
-        response = await client.get("https://httpbin.org/get")
-        return response.json()
+async def test():
+    return {"message": "Hello World"}
+
+
+# Exceptions that are raised within the request are automatically captured
+@app.get("/exception")
+async def exception():
+    raise Exception("Hit an exception")
+
+
+# Set the OTEL_PYTHON_EXCLUDE_URLS environment variable to "http://127.0.0.1:8000/exclude"
+# Telemetry from this endpoint will not be captured due to excluded_urls config above
+@app.get("/exclude")
+async def exclude():
+    return {"message": "Telemetry was not captured"}
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     # cSpell:disable
-    import uvicorn
-    trace.set_tracer_provider(TracerProvider())
-    exporter = AzureMonitorTraceExporter()
-    span_processor = BatchSpanProcessor(exporter)
-    trace.get_tracer_provider().add_span_processor(span_processor)
     uvicorn.run("sample_fastapi:app", port=8008, reload=True)
     # cSpell:disable
-
diff --git a/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/samples/traces/sample_flask.py b/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/samples/traces/sample_flask.py
index 4a96786dfbe4..85d2caa995b6 100644
--- a/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/samples/traces/sample_flask.py
+++ b/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/samples/traces/sample_flask.py
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@
 
 from azure.monitor.opentelemetry.exporter import AzureMonitorTraceExporter
 
-# Enable instrumentation in the flask library.
+# This method instruments all of FastAPI.
+# You can also use FlaskInstrumentor().instrument_app(app) to instrument a specific app after it is created.
 FlaskInstrumentor().instrument()
 app = flask.Flask(__name__)
 
diff --git a/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/CHANGELOG.md b/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/CHANGELOG.md
index c2be9837fa36..ea741a3be623 100644
--- a/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 
 ### Other Changes
 
+- Updated FastAPI sample
+    ([#34738](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/pull/34738))
+
 ## 1.3.0 (2024-02-29)
 
 ### Features Added
diff --git a/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/tracing/http_fastapi.py b/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/tracing/http_fastapi.py
index 96d5edd5787d..5a2e22f7ad98 100644
--- a/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/tracing/http_fastapi.py
+++ b/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/tracing/http_fastapi.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 # license information.
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 import fastapi
+import uvicorn
+
 from azure.monitor.opentelemetry import configure_azure_monitor
 
 # Configure Azure monitor collection telemetry pipeline
@@ -29,3 +31,9 @@ async def exception():
 @app.get("/exclude")
 async def exclude():
     return {"message": "Telemetry was not captured"}
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # cSpell:disable
+    uvicorn.run("http_fastapi:app", port=8008, reload=True)
+    # cSpell:disable