diff --git a/dapr-distributed-calendar/kubernetes/python-messages.yaml b/dapr-distributed-calendar/kubernetes/python-messages.yaml
index 7649076..1cdb383 100644
--- a/dapr-distributed-calendar/kubernetes/python-messages.yaml
+++ b/dapr-distributed-calendar/kubernetes/python-messages.yaml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ spec:
     spec:
       containers:
       - name: messages
-        image: mati007thm/dapr-distributed-calendar_messages:latest
+        image: mati007thm/dapr-distributed-calendar_messages:manual
         # image: mati007thm/dapr-distributed-calendar_messages:woOtel
         env:
         # - name: OTEL_SERVICE_NAME
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ spec:
           value: "5000"
         - name: FLASK_RUN_PORT
           value: "5000"
+        - name: OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT
+          value: "http://otel-dapr-collector:4317"
         ports:
         - containerPort: 5000
         imagePullPolicy: Always
diff --git a/dapr-distributed-calendar/python/messages.py b/dapr-distributed-calendar/python/messages.py
index 5539fd4..94116fe 100644
--- a/dapr-distributed-calendar/python/messages.py
+++ b/dapr-distributed-calendar/python/messages.py
@@ -7,10 +7,34 @@
 
 from dapr.clients import DaprClient
 
+from opentelemetry.sdk.resources import SERVICE_NAME, Resource
+
+from opentelemetry import metrics
+from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc.metric_exporter import OTLPMetricExporter
+from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics import MeterProvider
+from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics.export import PeriodicExportingMetricReader
+
+# Service name is required for most backends
+resource = Resource(attributes={
+    SERVICE_NAME: "your-service-name"
+})
+
+reader = PeriodicExportingMetricReader(
+    OTLPMetricExporter()
+)
+meterProvider = MeterProvider(resource=resource, metric_readers=[reader])
+metrics.set_meter_provider(meterProvider)
+
+meter = metrics.get_meter("messages.meter")
+
+subscription_counter = meter.create_counter(
+    "subscription.counter", unit="1", description="Counts the times the subscribe function is called"
+)
+
 app = flask.Flask(__name__)
 CORS(app)
 
-dapr_port = os.getenv("DAPR_HTTP_PORT", 5000)
+dapr_port = os.getenv("FLASK_RUN_PORT", 5000)
 
 # dapr calls this endpoint to register the subscriber configuration
 # an alternative way would to be declare this inside a config yaml file
@@ -24,6 +48,7 @@ def subscribe():
 # subscriber acts as a listener for the topic events-topic
 @app.route('/getmsg', methods=['POST'])
 def subscriber():
+    subscription_counter.add(1)
     print(request.json, flush=True)
     return json.dumps({'success':True}), 200, {'ContentType':'application/json'} 
 
diff --git a/dapr-distributed-calendar/python/requirements.txt b/dapr-distributed-calendar/python/requirements.txt
index 4a063e8..5e9731e 100644
--- a/dapr-distributed-calendar/python/requirements.txt
+++ b/dapr-distributed-calendar/python/requirements.txt
@@ -19,4 +19,7 @@ python-dotenv==1.0.0
 six==1.16.0
 typing_extensions==4.9.0
 Werkzeug==3.0.1
-yarl==1.9.4
\ No newline at end of file
+yarl==1.9.4
+opentelemetry-api==1.22.0
+opentelemetry-sdk==1.22.0
+opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc==1.22.0
\ No newline at end of file