Reference guidance for instrumenting services with OpenTelemetry and exporting OTLP telemetry through a Collector.
- What it does
- This skill provides reference material on OpenTelemetry observability patterns, covering traces, metrics, logs, context propagation, sampling, and semantic conventions. It also documents Collector pipelines, processors, deployment patterns, tail sampling, and OTLP export, plus manual instrumentation, propagation pitfalls, cardinality, and debugging. It is an instructions-only skill with no scripts; its output is guidance rather than generated files.
- When to use it
- Use it when building production observability, adding tracing to distributed systems, or standardizing telemetry across languages. It is also relevant when correlating logs with trace IDs or troubleshooting telemetry pipelines.
- Requirements
- No tools, packages, runtimes, credentials, or network access are required; the skill ships no scripts and consists of markdown reference documents only.
