diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a870bcc..acf54d4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ This is a plugin that makes it easy to use OTel with Spin.
 
 ## Background
 
-Spin applications have the ability to export metrics and trace data. This plugin provides dashboards for viewing the data.
+Spin applications have the ability to export metrics, logs, and trace data. This plugin provides dashboards for viewing the data.
 
 ## Requirements
 
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ spin otel setup --aspire
 ```
 
 
-## Run a Spin app that exports telemetry data
+## Run a Spin app and exports telemetry data
 
 ```sh
 spin otel up
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ Any flags that work with the `spin up` command, will work with the `spin otel up
 spin otel up -- --help
 ```
 
+Additionally, the `spin otel up` command enables the `wasi-otel` features in versions of Spin >= v3.6.0, which means that users will be able to instrument their applications with OpenTelemetry using the [opentelemetry-wasi](github.com/bytecodealliance/opentelemetry-wasi) SDKs.
+
 ## Open the dashboards in the default browser
 
 Depending on the chosen observability stack, you can use the sub-commands of `spin otel open` to open corresponding dashboards using your default browser.
diff --git a/cmd/root.go b/cmd/root.go
index 2e721d8..373f257 100644
--- a/cmd/root.go
+++ b/cmd/root.go
@@ -83,6 +83,15 @@ func detectContainerRuntime() (string, error) {
 	return runtime, nil
 }
 
+func getSpinPath() (string, error) {
+	pathToSpin := os.Getenv("SPIN_BIN_PATH")
+	if pathToSpin == "" {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("Please ensure that you are running \"spin otel up\", rather than calling the OpenTelemetry plugin binary directly")
+	}
+
+	return pathToSpin, nil
+}
+
 func Execute() {
 	if err := setOtelConfigPath(); err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, fmt.Errorf("Error finding the \"otel-config\" directory: %w", err))
diff --git a/cmd/up.go b/cmd/up.go
index 340577e..00464d7 100644
--- a/cmd/up.go
+++ b/cmd/up.go
@@ -1,17 +1,23 @@
 package cmd
 
 import (
-	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
+	"strconv"
 
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 )
 
+var experimentalWasiOtel = false
+
+func init() {
+	upCmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&experimentalWasiOtel, "experimental-wasi-otel", "", false, "Enable the experimental wasi-otel feature in Spin")
+}
+
 var upCmd = &cobra.Command{
 	Use:   "up",
-	Short: "Runs a Spin App with the default OpenTelemetry environment variables.",
-	Long:  "Runs a Spin App with the default OpenTelemetry environment variables. Any flags that work with the \"spin up\" command, will work with the \"spin otel up\" command: \"spin otel up -- --help\"",
+	Short: "Runs a Spin App with the default OpenTelemetry environment variables and wasi-otel features enabled.",
+	Long:  "Runs a Spin App with the default OpenTelemetry environment variables and wasi-otel features enabled. Any flags that work with the \"spin up\" command, will work with the \"spin otel up\" command: \"spin otel up -- --help\"",
 	RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 		if err := up(args); err != nil {
 			return err
@@ -22,13 +28,19 @@ var upCmd = &cobra.Command{
 }
 
 func up(args []string) error {
-	pathToSpin := os.Getenv("SPIN_BIN_PATH")
-	if pathToSpin == "" {
-		return fmt.Errorf("Please ensure that you are running \"spin otel up\", rather than calling the OpenTelemetry plugin binary directly")
+	pathToSpin, err := getSpinPath()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	cmdArgs := []string{"up"}
+
+	if spinHasWasiOtel() {
+		cmdArgs = append(cmdArgs, "--experimental-wasi-otel")
 	}
 
 	// Passing flags and args after the '--'
-	cmdArgs := append([]string{"up"}, args...)
+	cmdArgs = append(cmdArgs, args...)
 	cmd := exec.Command(pathToSpin, cmdArgs...)
 	cmd.Env = append(
 		os.Environ(),
@@ -41,3 +53,27 @@ func up(args []string) error {
 
 	return cmd.Run()
 }
+
+func spinHasWasiOtel() bool {
+	major, err := strconv.Atoi(os.Getenv("SPIN_VERSION_MAJOR"))
+	if err != nil {
+		panic("Something went wrong parsing the SPIN_VERSION_MAJOR env var: " + err.Error())
+	}
+
+	minor, err := strconv.Atoi(os.Getenv("SPIN_VERSION_MINOR"))
+	if err != nil {
+		panic("Something went wrong parsing the SPIN_VERSION_MINOR env var: " + err.Error())
+	}
+
+	if major < 3 {
+		return false
+	} else if major > 3 {
+		return true
+	} else { // if major == 3
+		if minor >= 6 {
+			return true
+		} else {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/otel-config/loki.yaml b/otel-config/loki.yaml
index 2426182..187b274 100644
--- a/otel-config/loki.yaml
+++ b/otel-config/loki.yaml
@@ -24,6 +24,6 @@ schema_config:
 storage_config:
     filesystem:
       directory: /tmp/loki/chunks
-      
+
 analytics:
   reporting_enabled: false