diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 9f811ebb45..bce8c03238 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1750,6 +1750,24 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "linkerd-opentelemetry"
+version = "0.1.0"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures",
+ "http",
+ "http-body",
+ "linkerd-error",
+ "linkerd-metrics",
+ "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry-proto",
+ "opentelemetry_sdk",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-stream",
+ "tonic",
+ "tracing",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "linkerd-pool"
 version = "0.1.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index bfb8093e4d..29f9651998 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ members = [
     "linkerd/meshtls/verifier",
     "linkerd/metrics",
     "linkerd/opencensus",
+    "linkerd/opentelemetry",
     "linkerd/pool",
     "linkerd/pool/mock",
     "linkerd/pool/p2c",
diff --git a/linkerd/opentelemetry/Cargo.toml b/linkerd/opentelemetry/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..78c0ae7f72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/linkerd/opentelemetry/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+[package]
+name = "linkerd-opentelemetry"
+version = "0.1.0"
+authors = ["Linkerd Developers <cncf-linkerd-dev@lists.cncf.io>"]
+license = "Apache-2.0"
+edition = "2021"
+publish = false
+
+[dependencies]
+futures = { version = "0.3", default-features = false }
+http = "0.2"
+http-body = "0.4"
+linkerd-error = { path = "../error" }
+linkerd-metrics = { path = "../metrics" }
+opentelemetry = { version = "0.23", default-features = false, features = ["trace"] }
+opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.23", default-features = false, features = ["trace"] }
+opentelemetry-proto = { path = "../../opentelemetry-proto" }
+tonic = { version = "0.10", default-features = false, features = [
+    "prost",
+    "codegen",
+] }
+tokio = { version = "1", features = ["macros", "sync", "time"] }
+tokio-stream = { version = "0.1", features = ["sync"] }
+tracing = "0.1"
diff --git a/linkerd/opentelemetry/src/lib.rs b/linkerd/opentelemetry/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2f983cade7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/linkerd/opentelemetry/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,212 @@
+#![deny(rust_2018_idioms, clippy::disallowed_methods, clippy::disallowed_types)]
+#![forbid(unsafe_code)]
+
+pub mod metrics;
+
+use futures::stream::{Stream, StreamExt};
+use http_body::Body as HttpBody;
+use linkerd_error::Error;
+use metrics::Registry;
+pub use opentelemetry_proto as proto;
+use opentelemetry_proto::proto::collector::trace::v1::trace_service_client::TraceServiceClient;
+use opentelemetry_proto::proto::collector::trace::v1::ExportTraceServiceRequest;
+use opentelemetry_proto::proto::trace::v1::ResourceSpans;
+use opentelemetry_proto::transform::common::ResourceAttributesWithSchema;
+use opentelemetry_proto::transform::trace::group_spans_by_resource_and_scope;
+pub use opentelemetry_sdk::export::trace::SpanData;
+use tokio::{sync::mpsc, time};
+use tonic::{self as grpc, body::BoxBody, client::GrpcService};
+use tracing::{debug, trace};
+
+pub async fn export_spans<T, S>(
+    client: T,
+    spans: S,
+    resource: ResourceAttributesWithSchema,
+    metrics: Registry,
+) where
+    T: GrpcService<BoxBody> + Clone,
+    T::Error: Into<Error>,
+    T::ResponseBody: Default + HttpBody<Data = tonic::codegen::Bytes> + Send + 'static,
+    <T::ResponseBody as HttpBody>::Error: Into<Error> + Send,
+    S: Stream<Item = SpanData> + Unpin,
+{
+    debug!("Span exporter running");
+    SpanExporter::new(client, spans, resource, metrics)
+        .run()
+        .await
+}
+
+/// SpanExporter sends a Stream of spans to the given TraceService gRPC service.
+struct SpanExporter<T, S> {
+    client: T,
+    spans: S,
+    resource: ResourceAttributesWithSchema,
+    metrics: Registry,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug)]
+struct SpanRxClosed;
+
+// === impl SpanExporter ===
+
+impl<T, S> SpanExporter<T, S>
+where
+    T: GrpcService<BoxBody> + Clone,
+    T::Error: Into<Error>,
+    T::ResponseBody: Default + HttpBody<Data = tonic::codegen::Bytes> + Send + 'static,
+    <T::ResponseBody as HttpBody>::Error: Into<Error> + Send,
+    S: Stream<Item = SpanData> + Unpin,
+{
+    const MAX_BATCH_SIZE: usize = 1000;
+    const MAX_BATCH_IDLE: time::Duration = time::Duration::from_secs(10);
+
+    fn new(client: T, spans: S, resource: ResourceAttributesWithSchema, metrics: Registry) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            client,
+            spans,
+            resource,
+            metrics,
+        }
+    }
+
+    async fn run(self) {
+        let Self {
+            client,
+            mut spans,
+            resource,
+            mut metrics,
+        } = self;
+
+        // Holds the batch of pending spans. Cleared as the spans are flushed.
+        // Contains no more than MAX_BATCH_SIZE spans.
+        let mut accum = Vec::new();
+
+        let mut svc = TraceServiceClient::new(client);
+        loop {
+            trace!("Establishing new TraceService::export request");
+            metrics.start_stream();
+            let (tx, mut rx) = mpsc::channel(1);
+
+            let recv_future = async {
+                while let Some(req) = rx.recv().await {
+                    match svc.export(grpc::Request::new(req)).await {
+                        Ok(rsp) => {
+                            let Some(partial_success) = rsp.into_inner().partial_success else {
+                                continue;
+                            };
+
+                            if !partial_success.error_message.is_empty() {
+                                debug!(
+                                    %partial_success.error_message,
+                                    rejected_spans = partial_success.rejected_spans,
+                                    "Response partially successful",
+                                );
+                            }
+                        }
+                        Err(error) => {
+                            debug!(%error, "Response future failed; restarting");
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            };
+
+            // Drive both the response future and the export stream
+            // simultaneously.
+            tokio::select! {
+                _ = recv_future => {}
+                res = Self::export(&tx, &mut spans, &resource, &mut accum) => match res {
+                    // The export stream closed; reconnect.
+                    Ok(()) => {},
+                    // No more spans.
+                    Err(SpanRxClosed) => return,
+                },
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Accumulate spans and send them on the export stream.
+    ///
+    /// Returns an error when the proxy has closed the span stream.
+    async fn export(
+        tx: &mpsc::Sender<ExportTraceServiceRequest>,
+        spans: &mut S,
+        resource: &ResourceAttributesWithSchema,
+        accum: &mut Vec<ResourceSpans>,
+    ) -> Result<(), SpanRxClosed> {
+        loop {
+            // Collect spans into a batch.
+            let collect = Self::collect_batch(spans, resource, accum).await;
+
+            // If we collected spans, flush them.
+            if !accum.is_empty() {
+                // Once a batch has been accumulated, ensure that the
+                // request stream is ready to accept the batch.
+                match tx.reserve().await {
+                    Ok(tx) => {
+                        let msg = ExportTraceServiceRequest {
+                            resource_spans: std::mem::take(accum),
+                        };
+                        trace!(spans = msg.resource_spans.len(), "Sending batch");
+                        tx.send(msg);
+                    }
+                    Err(error) => {
+                        // If the channel isn't open, start a new stream
+                        // and retry sending the batch.
+                        debug!(%error, "Request stream lost; restarting");
+                        return Ok(());
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            // If the span source was closed, end the task.
+            if let Err(closed) = collect {
+                debug!("Span channel lost");
+                return Err(closed);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Collects spans from the proxy into `accum`.
+    ///
+    /// Returns an error when the span stream has completed. An error may be
+    /// returned after accumulating spans.
+    async fn collect_batch(
+        span_stream: &mut S,
+        resource: &ResourceAttributesWithSchema,
+        accum: &mut Vec<ResourceSpans>,
+    ) -> Result<(), SpanRxClosed> {
+        let mut input_accum: Vec<SpanData> = vec![];
+
+        let res = loop {
+            if input_accum.len() == Self::MAX_BATCH_SIZE {
+                trace!(capacity = Self::MAX_BATCH_SIZE, "Batch capacity reached");
+                break Ok(());
+            }
+
+            tokio::select! {
+                biased;
+
+                res = span_stream.next() => match res {
+                    Some(span) => {
+                        trace!(?span, "Adding to batch");
+                        input_accum.push(span);
+                    }
+                    None => break Err(SpanRxClosed),
+                },
+
+                // Don't hold spans indefinitely. Return if we hit an idle
+                // timeout and spans have been collected.
+                _ = time::sleep(Self::MAX_BATCH_IDLE) => {
+                    if !input_accum.is_empty() {
+                        trace!(spans = input_accum.len(), "Flushing spans due to inactivitiy");
+                        break Ok(());
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        };
+
+        *accum = group_spans_by_resource_and_scope(input_accum, resource);
+
+        res
+    }
+}
diff --git a/linkerd/opentelemetry/src/metrics.rs b/linkerd/opentelemetry/src/metrics.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5c785de9d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/linkerd/opentelemetry/src/metrics.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+use linkerd_metrics::{metrics, Counter, FmtMetrics};
+use std::fmt;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+metrics! {
+    opentelemetry_span_export_streams: Counter { "Total count of opened span export streams" },
+    opentelemetry_span_export_requests: Counter { "Total count of span export request messages" },
+    opentelemetry_span_exports: Counter { "Total count of spans exported" }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug)]
+struct Metrics {
+    streams: Counter,
+    requests: Counter,
+    spans: Counter,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+pub struct Registry(Arc<Metrics>);
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+pub struct Report(Arc<Metrics>);
+
+pub fn new() -> (Registry, Report) {
+    let metrics = Metrics {
+        streams: Counter::default(),
+        requests: Counter::default(),
+        spans: Counter::default(),
+    };
+    let shared = Arc::new(metrics);
+    (Registry(shared.clone()), Report(shared))
+}
+
+impl Registry {
+    pub fn start_stream(&mut self) {
+        self.0.streams.incr()
+    }
+
+    pub fn send(&mut self, spans: u64) {
+        self.0.requests.incr();
+        self.0.spans.add(spans);
+    }
+}
+
+impl FmtMetrics for Report {
+    fn fmt_metrics(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+        opentelemetry_span_export_streams.fmt_help(f)?;
+        opentelemetry_span_export_streams.fmt_metric(f, &self.0.streams)?;
+
+        opentelemetry_span_export_requests.fmt_help(f)?;
+        opentelemetry_span_export_requests.fmt_metric(f, &self.0.requests)?;
+
+        opentelemetry_span_exports.fmt_help(f)?;
+        opentelemetry_span_exports.fmt_metric(f, &self.0.spans)?;
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}