diff --git a/azure_monitor/examples/requests.py b/azure_monitor/examples/requests.py
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+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+import requests
+
+from azure_monitor import AzureMonitorSpanExporter
+from opentelemetry import trace
+from opentelemetry.ext import http_requests
+from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import Tracer
+from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import SimpleExportSpanProcessor
+
+trace.set_preferred_tracer_implementation(Tracer)
+
+http_requests.enable(trace.tracer())
+span_processor = SimpleExportSpanProcessor(
+    AzureMonitorSpanExporter(instrumentation_key="<INSTRUMENTATION KEY HERE>")
+)
+trace.tracer().add_span_processor(span_processor)
+
+with trace.tracer().start_as_current_span("parent"):
+    response = requests.get("<URL HERE>", timeout=5)
+