Opentelemetry
Opentelemetry collects and exports metrics, logs, and traces from your applications for observability and troubleshooting, boosting system health.
Install on your platform
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add opentelemetry npx -- -y @trustedskills/opentelemetry
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"opentelemetry": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/opentelemetry"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
This skill provides access to OpenTelemetry, a powerful observability framework. It allows you to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (traces, metrics, and logs) from your applications and systems. This facilitates comprehensive monitoring and debugging capabilities across distributed environments.
When to use it
- Debugging complex microservices: Identify bottlenecks and errors within a distributed application architecture.
- Performance analysis: Track key performance indicators (KPIs) like latency and throughput to optimize system efficiency.
- Root cause analysis: Correlate traces, metrics, and logs to pinpoint the origin of issues quickly.
- Observability in cloud-native environments: Gain insights into application behavior across containers, Kubernetes clusters, and serverless functions.
Key capabilities
- Instrumentation
- Data collection
- Data export
- Tracing
- Metrics gathering
- Log management
Example prompts
- "Generate a trace for this API request."
- "Show me the average latency of my database queries over the last hour."
- "Export all logs to a central logging system."
- “Instrument this Python function with OpenTelemetry.”
Tips & gotchas
Requires familiarity with observability concepts and potentially some code modifications for instrumentation. The skill's effectiveness depends on proper configuration and integration within your existing infrastructure.
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