diff --git a/.github/workflows/bindings_ci.yml b/.github/workflows/bindings_ci.yml
index e85c00a2169..1d47bb6edd5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/bindings_ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/bindings_ci.yml
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
 
+      - name: Install Protoc
+        uses: arduino/setup-protoc@v1
+        with:
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
       - name: Check xtask cache
         uses: actions/cache@v3
         id: xtask-cache
@@ -58,6 +63,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v1
 
+      - name: Install Protoc
+        uses: arduino/setup-protoc@v1
+        with:
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
       - name: Install Rust
         uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
         with:
@@ -204,6 +214,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
 
+      - name: Install Protoc
+        uses: arduino/setup-protoc@v1
+        with:
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
       - name: Check xtask cache
         uses: actions/cache@v3
         id: xtask-cache
@@ -236,6 +251,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v1
 
+      - name: Install Protoc
+        uses: arduino/setup-protoc@v1
+        with:
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
       - name: Install Rust
         uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
         with:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 0c48cb3b5b1..7795a8715eb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
 
+      - name: Install Protoc
+        uses: arduino/setup-protoc@v1
+        with:
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
       - name: Check xtask cache
         uses: actions/cache@v3
         id: xtask-cache
@@ -187,6 +192,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v1
 
+      - name: Install Protoc
+        uses: arduino/setup-protoc@v1
+        with:
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
       - name: Install Rust
         uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
         with:
@@ -382,6 +392,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout the repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
+      - name: Install Protoc
+        uses: arduino/setup-protoc@v1
+        with:
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
       - name: Install Rust
         uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
         with:
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 7946958e073..22a5c59c7c5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -408,6 +408,12 @@ version = "0.20.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "0ea22880d78093b0cbe17c89f64a7d457941e65759157ec6cb31a31d652b05e5"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "base64"
+version = "0.21.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a4a4ddaa51a5bc52a6948f74c06d20aaaddb71924eab79b8c97a8c556e942d6a"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "base64ct"
 version = "1.5.3"
@@ -1680,6 +1686,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "fixedbitset"
+version = "0.4.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0ce7134b9999ecaf8bcd65542e436736ef32ddca1b3e06094cb6ec5755203b80"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "flate2"
 version = "1.0.25"
@@ -2141,6 +2153,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-rustls",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "hyper-timeout"
+version = "0.4.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bbb958482e8c7be4bc3cf272a766a2b0bf1a6755e7a6ae777f017a31d11b13b1"
+dependencies = [
+ "hyper",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-io-timeout",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hyper-tls"
 version = "0.5.0"
@@ -2887,6 +2911,7 @@ version = "0.2.0"
 dependencies = [
  "android_logger",
  "anyhow",
+ "base64 0.21.0",
  "extension-trait",
  "futures-core",
  "futures-signals",
@@ -2895,12 +2920,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "matrix-sdk",
  "mime",
  "once_cell",
+ "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry-otlp",
  "sanitize-filename-reader-friendly",
  "serde_json",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
  "tracing",
+ "tracing-opentelemetry",
  "tracing-subscriber",
  "uniffi",
  "uniffi_build",
@@ -3152,6 +3180,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "multimap"
+version = "0.8.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e5ce46fe64a9d73be07dcbe690a38ce1b293be448fd8ce1e6c1b8062c9f72c6a"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "napi"
 version = "2.10.5"
@@ -3439,6 +3473,101 @@ dependencies = [
  "vcpkg",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "opentelemetry"
+version = "0.18.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "69d6c3d7288a106c0a363e4b0e8d308058d56902adefb16f4936f417ffef086e"
+dependencies = [
+ "opentelemetry_api",
+ "opentelemetry_sdk",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "opentelemetry-http"
+version = "0.7.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1edc79add46364183ece1a4542592ca593e6421c60807232f5b8f7a31703825d"
+dependencies = [
+ "async-trait",
+ "bytes",
+ "http",
+ "opentelemetry_api",
+ "reqwest",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "opentelemetry-otlp"
+version = "0.11.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d1c928609d087790fc936a1067bdc310ae702bdf3b090c3f281b713622c8bbde"
+dependencies = [
+ "async-trait",
+ "futures",
+ "futures-util",
+ "http",
+ "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry-http",
+ "opentelemetry-proto",
+ "prost",
+ "reqwest",
+ "thiserror",
+ "tokio",
+ "tonic",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "opentelemetry-proto"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d61a2f56df5574508dd86aaca016c917489e589ece4141df1b5e349af8d66c28"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures",
+ "futures-util",
+ "opentelemetry",
+ "prost",
+ "tonic",
+ "tonic-build",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "opentelemetry_api"
+version = "0.18.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c24f96e21e7acc813c7a8394ee94978929db2bcc46cf6b5014fc612bf7760c22"
+dependencies = [
+ "fnv",
+ "futures-channel",
+ "futures-util",
+ "indexmap",
+ "js-sys",
+ "once_cell",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "thiserror",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "opentelemetry_sdk"
+version = "0.18.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1ca41c4933371b61c2a2f214bf16931499af4ec90543604ec828f7a625c09113"
+dependencies = [
+ "async-trait",
+ "crossbeam-channel",
+ "dashmap",
+ "fnv",
+ "futures-channel",
+ "futures-executor",
+ "futures-util",
+ "once_cell",
+ "opentelemetry_api",
+ "percent-encoding",
+ "rand 0.8.5",
+ "thiserror",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-stream",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "os_str_bytes"
 version = "6.4.1"
@@ -3540,6 +3669,16 @@ version = "2.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "478c572c3d73181ff3c2539045f6eb99e5491218eae919370993b890cdbdd98e"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "petgraph"
+version = "0.6.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e6d5014253a1331579ce62aa67443b4a658c5e7dd03d4bc6d302b94474888143"
+dependencies = [
+ "fixedbitset",
+ "indexmap",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pin-project"
 version = "1.0.12"
@@ -3685,6 +3824,16 @@ version = "0.2.17"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "5b40af805b3121feab8a3c29f04d8ad262fa8e0561883e7653e024ae4479e6de"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "prettyplease"
+version = "0.1.23"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e97e3215779627f01ee256d2fad52f3d95e8e1c11e9fc6fd08f7cd455d5d5c78"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "syn",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro-crate"
 version = "1.2.1"
@@ -3756,6 +3905,28 @@ dependencies = [
  "prost-derive",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "prost-build"
+version = "0.11.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "cb5320c680de74ba083512704acb90fe00f28f79207286a848e730c45dd73ed6"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "heck",
+ "itertools",
+ "lazy_static",
+ "log",
+ "multimap",
+ "petgraph",
+ "prettyplease",
+ "prost",
+ "prost-types",
+ "regex",
+ "syn",
+ "tempfile",
+ "which",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "prost-derive"
 version = "0.11.5"
@@ -3769,6 +3940,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "prost-types"
+version = "0.11.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "017f79637768cde62820bc2d4fe0e45daaa027755c323ad077767c6c5f173091"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "prost",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pulldown-cmark"
 version = "0.9.2"
@@ -4957,6 +5138,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tokio-io-timeout"
+version = "1.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "30b74022ada614a1b4834de765f9bb43877f910cc8ce4be40e89042c9223a8bf"
+dependencies = [
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-macros"
 version = "1.8.2"
@@ -5035,6 +5226,51 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tonic"
+version = "0.8.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8f219fad3b929bef19b1f86fbc0358d35daed8f2cac972037ac0dc10bbb8d5fb"
+dependencies = [
+ "async-stream",
+ "async-trait",
+ "axum",
+ "base64 0.13.1",
+ "bytes",
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-util",
+ "h2",
+ "http",
+ "http-body",
+ "hyper",
+ "hyper-timeout",
+ "percent-encoding",
+ "pin-project",
+ "prost",
+ "prost-derive",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-stream",
+ "tokio-util",
+ "tower",
+ "tower-layer",
+ "tower-service",
+ "tracing",
+ "tracing-futures",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tonic-build"
+version = "0.8.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5bf5e9b9c0f7e0a7c027dcfaba7b2c60816c7049171f679d99ee2ff65d0de8c4"
+dependencies = [
+ "prettyplease",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "prost-build",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tower"
 version = "0.4.13"
@@ -5043,9 +5279,13 @@ checksum = "b8fa9be0de6cf49e536ce1851f987bd21a43b771b09473c3549a6c853db37c1c"
 dependencies = [
  "futures-core",
  "futures-util",
+ "indexmap",
  "pin-project",
  "pin-project-lite",
+ "rand 0.8.5",
+ "slab",
  "tokio",
+ "tokio-util",
  "tower-layer",
  "tower-service",
  "tracing",
@@ -5127,6 +5367,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-futures"
+version = "0.2.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "97d095ae15e245a057c8e8451bab9b3ee1e1f68e9ba2b4fbc18d0ac5237835f2"
+dependencies = [
+ "pin-project",
+ "tracing",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-log"
 version = "0.1.3"
@@ -5138,6 +5388,20 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-core",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-opentelemetry"
+version = "0.18.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "21ebb87a95ea13271332df069020513ab70bdb5637ca42d6e492dc3bbbad48de"
+dependencies = [
+ "once_cell",
+ "opentelemetry",
+ "tracing",
+ "tracing-core",
+ "tracing-log",
+ "tracing-subscriber",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-subscriber"
 version = "0.3.16"
@@ -5679,6 +5943,17 @@ version = "0.1.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "9193164d4de03a926d909d3bc7c30543cecb35400c02114792c2cae20d5e2dbb"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "which"
+version = "4.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2441c784c52b289a054b7201fc93253e288f094e2f4be9058343127c4226a269"
+dependencies = [
+ "either",
+ "libc",
+ "once_cell",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "wildmatch"
 version = "2.1.1"
diff --git a/bindings/matrix-sdk-ffi/Cargo.toml b/bindings/matrix-sdk-ffi/Cargo.toml
index 82d2e413557..b8a8af70067 100644
--- a/bindings/matrix-sdk-ffi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bindings/matrix-sdk-ffi/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ uniffi_build = { workspace = true, features = ["builtin-bindgen"] }
 
 [dependencies]
 anyhow = { workspace = true }
+base64 = "0.21"
 extension-trait = "1.0.1"
 futures-core = "0.3.17"
 futures-signals = { version = "0.3.30", default-features = false }
@@ -25,9 +26,12 @@ mime = "0.3.16"
 # FIXME: we currently can't feature flag anything in the api.udl, therefore we must enforce experimental-sliding-sync being exposed here..
 # see https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/issues/1014
 once_cell = { workspace = true }
+opentelemetry = { version = "0.18.0", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
+opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.11.0", features = ["tokio", "reqwest-client", "http-proto"] }
 sanitize-filename-reader-friendly = "2.2.1"
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
 thiserror = { workspace = true }
+tracing-opentelemetry = { version = "0.18.0" }
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
 tokio-stream = "0.1.8"
 uniffi = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/bindings/matrix-sdk-ffi/src/platform.rs b/bindings/matrix-sdk-ffi/src/platform.rs
index b1ed9702b13..b506c47441c 100644
--- a/bindings/matrix-sdk-ffi/src/platform.rs
+++ b/bindings/matrix-sdk-ffi/src/platform.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,25 @@
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+
 #[cfg(target_os = "android")]
 use android as platform_impl;
+use base64::{engine::general_purpose::STANDARD, Engine};
+use futures_core::future::BoxFuture;
 #[cfg(target_os = "ios")]
 use ios as platform_impl;
+use opentelemetry::{
+    sdk::{
+        trace::{BatchMessage, TraceRuntime, Tracer},
+        util::tokio_interval_stream,
+        Resource,
+    },
+    KeyValue,
+};
+use opentelemetry_otlp::{Protocol, WithExportConfig};
 #[cfg(not(any(target_os = "ios", target_os = "android")))]
 use other as platform_impl;
+use tokio::runtime::Handle;
+
+use crate::RUNTIME;
 
 #[cfg(target_os = "android")]
 mod android {
@@ -24,6 +40,75 @@ mod android {
     }
 }
 
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+struct TracingRuntime {
+    runtime: Handle,
+}
+
+impl opentelemetry::runtime::Runtime for TracingRuntime {
+    type Interval = tokio_stream::wrappers::IntervalStream;
+    type Delay = ::std::pin::Pin<Box<tokio::time::Sleep>>;
+
+    fn interval(&self, duration: std::time::Duration) -> Self::Interval {
+        let _guard = self.runtime.enter();
+        tokio_interval_stream(duration)
+    }
+
+    fn spawn(&self, future: BoxFuture<'static, ()>) {
+        #[allow(clippy::let_underscore_future)]
+        let _ = self.runtime.spawn(future);
+    }
+
+    fn delay(&self, duration: std::time::Duration) -> Self::Delay {
+        let _guard = self.runtime.enter();
+        Box::pin(tokio::time::sleep(duration))
+    }
+}
+
+impl TraceRuntime for TracingRuntime {
+    type Receiver = tokio_stream::wrappers::ReceiverStream<BatchMessage>;
+    type Sender = tokio::sync::mpsc::Sender<BatchMessage>;
+
+    fn batch_message_channel(&self, capacity: usize) -> (Self::Sender, Self::Receiver) {
+        let (sender, receiver) = tokio::sync::mpsc::channel(capacity);
+        (sender, tokio_stream::wrappers::ReceiverStream::new(receiver))
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn create_otlp_tracer(
+    user: String,
+    password: String,
+    otlp_endpoint: String,
+    client_name: String,
+) -> anyhow::Result<Tracer> {
+    let runtime = RUNTIME.handle().to_owned();
+
+    let auth = STANDARD.encode(format!("{user}:{password}"));
+    let headers = HashMap::from([("Authorization".to_owned(), format!("Basic {auth}"))]);
+    let http_client = matrix_sdk::reqwest::ClientBuilder::new().build()?;
+
+    let exporter = opentelemetry_otlp::new_exporter()
+        .http()
+        .with_http_client(http_client)
+        .with_protocol(Protocol::HttpBinary)
+        .with_endpoint(otlp_endpoint)
+        .with_headers(headers);
+
+    let tracer_runtime = TracingRuntime { runtime: runtime.to_owned() };
+
+    let _guard = runtime.enter();
+    let tracer = opentelemetry_otlp::new_pipeline()
+        .tracing()
+        .with_exporter(exporter)
+        .with_trace_config(
+            opentelemetry::sdk::trace::config()
+                .with_resource(Resource::new(vec![KeyValue::new("service.name", client_name)])),
+        )
+        .install_batch(tracer_runtime)?;
+
+    Ok(tracer)
+}
+
 #[cfg(target_os = "ios")]
 mod ios {
     use std::io;
@@ -35,6 +120,26 @@ mod ios {
             .with(fmt::layer().with_ansi(false).with_writer(io::stderr))
             .init();
     }
+
+    pub fn setup_otlp_tracing(
+        configuration: String,
+        user: String,
+        password: String,
+        otlp_endpoint: String,
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+        let otlp_tracer =
+            super::create_otlp_tracer(user, password, otlp_endpoint, "element-x-ios".to_owned())?;
+
+        let otlp_layer = tracing_opentelemetry::layer().with_tracer(otlp_tracer);
+
+        tracing_subscriber::registry()
+            .with(EnvFilter::new(configuration))
+            .with(fmt::layer().with_ansi(false).with_writer(io::stderr))
+            .with(otlp_layer)
+            .init();
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
 }
 
 #[cfg(not(any(target_os = "ios", target_os = "android")))]
@@ -55,3 +160,10 @@ mod other {
 pub fn setup_tracing(filter: String) {
     platform_impl::setup_tracing(filter)
 }
+
+#[cfg(target_os = "ios")]
+#[uniffi::export]
+pub fn setup_otlp_tracing(filter: String, user: String, password: String, otlp_endpoint: String) {
+    platform_impl::setup_otlp_tracing(filter, user, password, otlp_endpoint)
+        .expect("Couldn't configure the OpenTelemetry tracer")
+}