diff --git a/cli/cmd/install.go b/cli/cmd/install.go
index 4c570a400..3dd09fc9c 100644
--- a/cli/cmd/install.go
+++ b/cli/cmd/install.go
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ type ResourceCreationFunc func(ctx context.Context, cmd *cobra.Command, client *
 var installCmd = &cobra.Command{
 	Use:   "install",
 	Short: "Install Odigos",
-	Long:  `Install Odigos in your cluster. This command will install the Odigos CRDs, the Odigos Instrumentor, Scheduler, Autoscaler and Odiglet.`,
+	Long: `Install Odigos in your kubernetes cluster. 
+This command will install k8s components that will auto-instrument your applications with OpenTelemetry and send traces, metrics and logs to any telemetry backend`,
 	Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
 
 		client, err := kube.CreateClient(cmd)
@@ -317,7 +318,7 @@ func createOwnTelemetryPipeline(ctx context.Context, cmd *cobra.Command, client
 		return errors.New("odigos cloud api key is required for odigos own telemetry")
 	}
 
-	_, err := client.CoreV1().ConfigMaps(ns).Create(ctx, resources.NewOwnTelemetryConfigMapOtlpGrpc(ns), metav1.CreateOptions{})
+	_, err := client.CoreV1().ConfigMaps(ns).Create(ctx, resources.NewOwnTelemetryConfigMapOtlpGrpc(ns, versionFlag), metav1.CreateOptions{})
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
diff --git a/cli/cmd/resources/owntelemetry.go b/cli/cmd/resources/owntelemetry.go
index 2109bd9b4..54516d55a 100644
--- a/cli/cmd/resources/owntelemetry.go
+++ b/cli/cmd/resources/owntelemetry.go
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ func NewOwnTelemetryConfigMapDisabled() *corev1.ConfigMap {
 }
 
 // for odigos cloud which process own telemetry
-func NewOwnTelemetryConfigMapOtlpGrpc(ns string) *corev1.ConfigMap {
+func NewOwnTelemetryConfigMapOtlpGrpc(ns string, odigosVersion string) *corev1.ConfigMap {
 	return &corev1.ConfigMap{
 		TypeMeta: v1.TypeMeta{
 			Kind:       "ConfigMap",
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ func NewOwnTelemetryConfigMapOtlpGrpc(ns string) *corev1.ConfigMap {
 			"OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_INSECURE": "true",
 			// the http:// scheme is not actually used, it how the exporter is expecting the value with grpc
 			"OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT": fmt.Sprintf("http://%s.%s:4317", ownTelemetryCollectorServiceName, ns),
+			// resource attributes
+			"OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES": fmt.Sprintf("odigos.version=%s", odigosVersion),
 		},
 	}
 }