diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index b9dbd8a..eab0174 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.20)
 include(cmake/color.cmake)
-set(BLT_VERSION 5.2.38)
+set(BLT_VERSION 5.2.39)
 
 set(BLT_TARGET BLT)
 
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ option(ENABLE_UBSAN "Enable the ub sanitizer" OFF)
 option(ENABLE_TSAN "Enable the thread data race sanitizer" OFF)
 
 option(BLT_LOGGING_THREAD_SAFE "Make sure logging is thread synced" ON)
+option(BLT_DEBUG_OTEL "Use Open Telemetry for debugging" OFF)
 
 option(BUILD_STD "Build the BLT standard utilities." ON)
 option(BUILD_PROFILING "Build the BLT profiler extension" ON)
@@ -32,6 +33,17 @@ option(BLT_DISABLE_WARN "Disable blt::logging BLT_WARN macro" OFF)
 option(BLT_DISABLE_ERROR "Disable blt::logging BLT_ERROR macro" OFF)
 option(BLT_DISABLE_FATAL "Disable blt::logging BLT_FATAL macro" OFF)
 
+if (BLT_DEBUG_OTEL)
+    message(STATUS "Searching in path '${CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH}'")
+    find_package(absl REQUIRED)
+    find_package(protobuf REQUIRED)
+    find_package(OpenSSL REQUIRED)
+    find_package(gRPC REQUIRED)
+    find_package(nlohmann_json CONFIG REQUIRED)
+    find_package(prometheus-cpp CONFIG REQUIRED)
+    find_package(opentelemetry-cpp CONFIG REQUIRED)
+endif ()
+
 if (BLT_LOGGING_THREAD_SAFE)
     add_compile_definitions(BLT_LOGGING_THREAD_SAFE)
 endif ()
@@ -221,4 +233,5 @@ project(BLT)
 
 if (BLT_DEBUG_OTEL)
     target_link_libraries(${BLT_TARGET} PUBLIC ${OPENTELEMETRY_CPP_LIBRARIES})
+    target_include_directories(${BLT_TARGET} PUBLIC ${OPENTELEMETRY_CPP_INCLUDE_DIRS})
 endif ()
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/default.nix b/default.nix
index 95476c0..72acdbf 100644
--- a/default.nix
+++ b/default.nix
@@ -12,15 +12,33 @@ pkgs.mkShell
 		ninja
 		renderdoc
 		valgrind
+		gtest
+		opentelemetry-cpp
+		opentelemetry-cpp.dev
+	];
+	nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [
+	    pkg-config
+	    opentelemetry-cpp
+        opentelemetry-cpp.dev
 	];
-	nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [ pkg-config ];
 	propagatedBuildInputs = with pkgs; [
-        gtest
-        gtest.dev
-        grpc
-        protobuf
-        curl
-        abseil-cpp
+		abseil-cpp
+		protobuf
+		grpc
+		prometheus-cpp
+		prometheus-cpp.dev
+		openssl
+		openssl.dev
+		opentelemetry-cpp
+		opentelemetry-cpp.dev
+		civetweb
+		civetweb.dev
+		c-ares
+		c-ares.dev
+		nlohmann_json
+		glibc
+		glibc.dev
+		curl
 	];
 	LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/run/opengl-driver/lib:/run/opengl-driver-32/lib";
 }