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 ## Getting Started
 
+You can find a getting started guide on [opentelemetry.io](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/go/getting-started/).
+
 OpenTelemetry's goal is to provide a single set of APIs to capture distributed
 traces and metrics from your application and send them to an observability
 platform. This project allows you to do just that for applications written in
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 default SDK implementation (go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk), and associated
 exporters are used to process and transport this data.
 
+To read the getting started guide, see https://opentelemetry.io/docs/go/getting-started/.
+
 To read more about tracing, see go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace.
 
 To read more about metrics, see go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric.