Agent skill
opentelemetry
OpenTelemetry observability patterns: traces, metrics, logs, context propagation, OTLP export, Collector pipelines, and troubleshooting
Install this agent skill to your Project
npx add-skill https://github.com/bobmatnyc/claude-mpm-skills/tree/main/universal/observability/opentelemetry
SKILL.md
OpenTelemetry
Quick Start (signal design)
- Export OTLP via an OpenTelemetry Collector (vendor-neutral endpoint).
- Standardize resource attributes:
service.name,service.version,deployment.environment. - Start with auto-instrumentation, then add manual spans and log correlation.
Load Next (References)
references/concepts.md— traces/metrics/logs, context propagation, sampling, semantic conventionsreferences/collector-and-otlp.md— Collector pipelines, processors, deployment patterns, tail samplingreferences/instrumentation-and-troubleshooting.md— manual spans, propagation pitfalls, cardinality, debugging
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