diff --git a/tesseract/genconf/env.go b/tesseract/genconf/env.go
index 4fa888f..935e5fa 100644
--- a/tesseract/genconf/env.go
+++ b/tesseract/genconf/env.go
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ func generateEnv(yamlFile string) {
 		}
 
 		tesseractArgs := strings.Join(args, " ")
-		envContent := fmt.Sprintf("TESSERACT_ARGS=\"%s\"\n", tesseractArgs)
+		envContent := fmt.Sprintf("TESSERACT_ARGS=\"%s\"\nOTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:4318\n", tesseractArgs)
 
 		err = os.WriteFile(envPath, []byte(envContent), 0644)
 		if err != nil {