diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index f828bb3769a..6ec3c5419f7 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -72,3 +72,6 @@
 [submodule "src/utf8proc"]
 	path = src/utf8proc
 	url = https://github.com/JuliaStrings/utf8proc
+[submodule "src/jaegertracing/opentelemetry-cpp"]
+	path = src/jaegertracing/opentelemetry-cpp
+	url = https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp.git
diff --git a/src/jaegertracing/opentelemetry-cpp b/src/jaegertracing/opentelemetry-cpp
new file mode 160000
index 00000000000..9f3a8eeb195
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/jaegertracing/opentelemetry-cpp
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 9f3a8eeb1952c75d6d5f74aa4c5e6ed21e1318a8