diff --git a/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml b/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2d7a6efd733
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+name: SDK Benchmark Tests
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ main ]
+
+jobs:
+  sdk-benchmarks:
+    env:
+      py311: "3.11"
+      RUN_MATRIX_COMBINATION: ${{ matrix.python-version }}-sdk-${{ matrix.os }}
+    runs-on: self-hosted
+    strategy:
+      # Ensures the entire test matrix is run, even if one permutation fails
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python-version: [py311]
+        os: [ubuntu-20.04, windows-2019]
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout Core Repo @ SHA - ${{ github.sha }}
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: Set up Python ${{ env[matrix.python-version] }}
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ env[matrix.python-version] }}
+        architecture: 'x64'
+    - name: Install tox
+      run: pip install tox==3.27.1 -U tox-factor
+    - name: Cache tox environment
+      # Preserves .tox directory between runs for faster installs
+      uses: actions/cache@v2
+      with:
+        path: |
+          .tox
+          ~/.cache/pip
+        key: v3-tox-cache-${{ env.RUN_MATRIX_COMBINATION }}-${{ hashFiles('tox.ini',
+          'dev-requirements.txt') }}-core
+    - name: Run tox
+      run: tox -f ${{ matrix.python-version }}-sdk -- -k opentelemetry-sdk/tests/performance/benchmarks --benchmark-json=output.json
+    - name: Report on SDK benchmark results
+      uses: benchmark-action/github-action-benchmark@v1
+      with:
+        name: OpenTelemetry Python SDK Benchmarks - Python ${{ env[matrix.python-version ]}} - SDK
+        tool: pytest
+        output-file-path: opentelemetry-sdk/tests/output.json
+        gh-pages-branch: benchmarks
+        github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        # Make a commit on `gh-pages` with benchmarks from previous step
+        benchmark-data-dir-path: "benchmarks"
+        auto-push: true
+        max-items-in-chart: 100
+        # Alert with a commit comment on possible performance regression
+        alert-threshold: '200%'
+        comment-on-alert: true
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 88c1675c470..db2aee75ea1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ jobs:
       if: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-2019'}}
       run: git config --system core.longpaths true
     - name: run tox
-      run: tox -f ${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.package }} -- --benchmark-json=${{
+      run: tox -f ${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.package }} -- -ra --benchmark-json=${{
         env.RUN_MATRIX_COMBINATION }}-benchmark.json
 #       - name: Find and merge benchmarks
 #         id: find_and_merge_benchmarks
@@ -159,4 +159,4 @@ jobs:
         key: v3-tox-cache-${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.package }}-${{ matrix.os
           }}-${{ hashFiles('tox.ini', 'dev-requirements.txt') }}-contrib
     - name: run tox
-      run: tox -f ${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.package }}
+      run: tox -f ${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.package }} -- -ra
diff --git a/docs/getting_started/tests/requirements.txt b/docs/getting_started/tests/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c4c62067ac4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/getting_started/tests/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+asgiref==3.7.2
+attrs==23.1.0
+certifi==2023.7.22
+charset-normalizer==2.0.12
+click==8.1.7
+Deprecated==1.2.14
+flaky==3.7.0
+Flask==2.0.1
+idna==3.4
+importlib-metadata==6.8.0
+iniconfig==2.0.0
+itsdangerous==2.1.2
+Jinja2==3.1.2
+MarkupSafe==2.1.3
+packaging==23.2
+pluggy==1.3.0
+py==1.11.0
+py-cpuinfo==9.0.0
+pytest==7.1.3
+pytest-benchmark==4.0.0
+requests==2.26.0
+tomli==2.0.1
+typing_extensions==4.8.0
+urllib3==1.26.18
+Werkzeug==2.3.7
+wrapt==1.15.0
+zipp==3.17.0
diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-proto-grpc/pyproject.toml b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-proto-grpc/pyproject.toml
index 131f12a0b4a..7a0c628d366 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-proto-grpc/pyproject.toml
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-proto-grpc/pyproject.toml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ classifiers = [
   "Typing :: Typed",
 ]
 dependencies = [
+  "protobuf ~= 3.20.0",
   "googleapis-common-protos ~= 1.52, < 1.60.0",
   "grpcio >= 1.0.0, < 2.0.0",
   "opentelemetry-api ~= 1.3",
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 4bb52cdc666..e6b8c8aeb5b 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -19,8 +19,7 @@ envlist =
     pypy3-opentelemetry-semantic-conventions
 
     ; docs/getting-started
-    py3{7,8,9,10,11}-opentelemetry-getting-started
-    pypy3-opentelemetry-getting-started
+    py3{8,9,10,11}-opentelemetry-getting-started
 
     py3{7,8,9,10,11}-opentelemetry-opentracing-shim
     pypy3-opentelemetry-opentracing-shim
@@ -132,7 +131,7 @@ commands_pre =
 
   protobuf: pip install {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-proto
 
-  getting-started: pip install requests==2.26.0 flask==2.0.1
+  getting-started: pip install -r requirements.txt
   getting-started: pip install -e "{env:CONTRIB_REPO}#egg=opentelemetry-util-http&subdirectory=util/opentelemetry-util-http"
   getting-started: pip install -e "{env:CONTRIB_REPO}#egg=opentelemetry-instrumentation&subdirectory=opentelemetry-instrumentation"
   getting-started: pip install -e "{env:CONTRIB_REPO}#egg=opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests&subdirectory=instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests"