diff --git a/infrastructure/backend/.env.template b/infrastructure/backend/.env.template
index d5afaff..e494e5f 100644
--- a/infrastructure/backend/.env.template
+++ b/infrastructure/backend/.env.template
@@ -21,3 +21,7 @@ MINIO_ENDPOINT=minio:9000
 MINIO_CUSTOM_ENDPOINT_URL=http://127.0.0.1:13244
 MINIO_ACCESS_KEY=admin
 MINIO_SECRET_KEY=password
+
+OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER=none
+OTEL_EXPORTER_ZIPKIN_ENDPOINT=http://zipkin:9411/api/v2/spans
+OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER=zipkin_json
diff --git a/services/backend/Dockerfile b/services/backend/Dockerfile
index 8e95eb9..d899c1a 100644
--- a/services/backend/Dockerfile
+++ b/services/backend/Dockerfile
@@ -32,11 +32,12 @@ USER app
 ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \
     PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 \
     PYTHONOPTIMIZE=2 \
-    PATH="/opt/venv/bin:$PATH"
+    PATH="/opt/venv/bin:$PATH" \
+    DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=config.settings
 
 EXPOSE 8080
 
 HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=5s --start-period=5s --start-interval=2s --retries=3 \
     CMD wget --no-verbose --tries=1 --spider http://127.0.0.1:8080/health?format=json || exit 1
 
-CMD [ "gunicorn", "config.wsgi", "--workers=8", "-b", "0.0.0.0:8080", "--access-logfile", "-", "--error-logfile", "-" ]
+CMD [ "opentelemetry-instrument", "--service_name", "backend-django", "--traces_exporter", "zipkin_json", "gunicorn", "config.wsgi", "--workers=8", "-b", "0.0.0.0:8080", "--access-logfile", "-", "--error-logfile", "-" ]
diff --git a/services/backend/pyproject.toml b/services/backend/pyproject.toml
index 4501630..0e99640 100644
--- a/services/backend/pyproject.toml
+++ b/services/backend/pyproject.toml
@@ -15,6 +15,23 @@ dependencies = [
  "django-stubs-ext>=5.1.3,<6.0.0",
  "gunicorn>=23.0.0,<24.0.0",
  "httpx>=0.28.1,<0.29.0",
+ "opentelemetry-api>=1.35.0",
+ "opentelemetry-distro>=0.56b0",
+ "opentelemetry-exporter-otlp>=1.35.0",
+ "opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-proto-http>=1.11.1",
+ "opentelemetry-instrumentation-asyncio>=0.56b0",
+ "opentelemetry-instrumentation-celery>=0.56b0",
+ "opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi>=0.56b0",
+ "opentelemetry-instrumentation-django>=0.56b0",
+ "opentelemetry-instrumentation-httpx>=0.56b0",
+ "opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg2>=0.56b0",
+ "opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests>=0.56b0",
+ "opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlite3>=0.56b0",
+ "opentelemetry-instrumentation-threading>=0.56b0",
+ "opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib>=0.56b0",
+ "opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib3>=0.56b0",
+ "opentelemetry-instrumentation-wsgi>=0.56b0",
+ "opentelemetry-sdk>=1.35.0",
  "pillow>=11.1.0,<12.0.0",
  "psycopg2-binary>=2.9.10,<3.0.0",
  "pydantic>=2.10.5,<3.0.0",