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+# OpenTelemetry Trace API Node.js Samples
+OpenTelemetry makes robust, portable telemetry a built-in feature of cloud-native software. OpenTelemetry provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application.
+
+## Table of Contents
+
+* [Setup](#setup)
+* [Samples](#samples)
+  * [Trace API](#trace-api)
+
+## Setup
+
+1.  Read [Prerequisites][prereq] and [How to run a sample][run] first.
+1.  Install dependencies:
+
+        npm install
+
+
+[prereq]: ../README.md#prerequisites
+[run]: ../README.md#how-to-run-a-sample
+
+## Samples
+
+### Trace API
+
+View the [documentation][trace_0_docs] or the [source code][trace_0_code].
+
+__Usage:__ `node traces-quickstart.js`
+
+[trace_0_docs]: https://open-telemetry.github.io/opentelemetry-js/
+[trace_0_code]: traces-quickstart.js
diff --git a/opentelemetry/trace/package.json b/opentelemetry/trace/package.json
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+{
+  "name": "opentelemetry-samples",
+  "description": "An example of exporting a traces from OpenTelemetry Node.js to Google Cloud Trace.",
+  "version": "0.0.1",
+  "private": true,
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "author": "Google Inc.",
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/nodejs-docs-samples.git"
+  },
+  "engines": {
+    "node": ">=8.0.0"
+  },
+  "scripts": {
+    "start": "node traces-quickstart.js",
+    "test": "repo-tools test run --cmd mocha -- system-test/*.test.js --timeout=5000 --exit"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "@opentelemetry/api": "0.5.2",
+    "@opentelemetry/tracing": "0.5.2",
+    "@opentelemetry/node": "0.5.2",
+    "@google-cloud/opentelemetry-cloud-trace-exporter": "0.1.0"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "@google-cloud/nodejs-repo-tools": "^3.3.0",
+    "mocha": "^7.0.0"
+  },
+  "cloud-repo-tools": {
+    "requiresKeyFile": true,
+    "requiresProjectId": true
+  }
+}
diff --git a/opentelemetry/trace/system-test/traces-quickstart.test.js b/opentelemetry/trace/system-test/traces-quickstart.test.js
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+// Copyright 2020 Google LLC
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+'use strict';
+
+const assert = require('assert');
+const childProcess = require('child_process');
+
+it('Should throw an error without projectId', async () => {
+  process.env.GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID = '';
+
+  try {
+    await childProcess.execSync('node traces-quickstart.js');
+    assert.fail('Did not throw an error.');
+  } catch (err) {
+    assert.ok(err.message.includes('Unable to proceed without a Project ID'));
+  }
+});
+
+it('Should capture traces data and export it to backend', async () => {
+  process.env.GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID = 'fake-id';
+  process.env.KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST = 'localhost';
+  process.env.EXPORT_INTERVAL = 1;
+
+  const output = await childProcess.execSync('node traces-quickstart.js');
+  assert.ok(output.includes('Done recording traces.'));
+});
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+// Copyright 2020 Google LLC
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+//
+
+// [START opentelemetry_trace_samples]
+'use strict';
+
+// [START opentelemetry_trace_import]
+const opentelemetry = require('@opentelemetry/api');
+const {NodeTracerProvider} = require('@opentelemetry/node');
+const {SimpleSpanProcessor} = require('@opentelemetry/tracing');
+const {
+  StackdriverTraceExporter,
+} = require('@google-cloud/opentelemetry-cloud-trace-exporter');
+// [END opentelemetry_trace_import]
+
+// [START setup_exporter]
+// Enable OpenTelemetry exporters to export traces to Google Cloud Trace.
+// Exporters use Application Default Credentials (ADCs) to authenticate.
+// See https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/application-default-credentials
+// for more details.
+// Expects ADCs to be provided through the environment as ${GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS}
+// A Stackdriver workspace is required and provided through the environment as ${GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID}
+const projectId = process.env.GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID;
+
+// GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS are expected by a dependency of this code
+// Not this code itself. Checking for existence here but not retaining (as not needed)
+if (!projectId || !process.env.GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS) {
+  throw Error('Unable to proceed without a Project ID');
+}
+
+const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
+
+// Initialize the exporter
+const exporter = new StackdriverTraceExporter({projectId: projectId});
+
+// Configure the span processor to send spans to the exporter
+provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
+
+// [END setup_exporter]
+
+// [START opentelemetry_trace_custom_span]
+
+// Initialize the OpenTelemetry APIs to use the
+// NodeTracerProvider bindings
+opentelemetry.trace.setGlobalTracerProvider(provider);
+const tracer = opentelemetry.trace.getTracer('basic');
+
+// Create a span.
+const span = tracer.startSpan('foo');
+
+// Set attributes to the span.
+span.setAttribute('key', 'value');
+
+// Annotate our span to capture metadata about our operation
+span.addEvent('invoking work');
+
+// Be sure to end the span.
+span.end();
+// [END opentelemetry_trace_custom_span]
+
+console.log('Done recording traces.');
+
+// [END opentelemetry_trace_samples]