Opentelemetry Instrumentation Extension
This extension simplifies OpenTelemetry integration by providing pre-built instrumentation for various services, streamlining observability and debugging.
Install on your platform
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add opentelemetry-instrumentation-extension npx -- -y @trustedskills/opentelemetry-instrumentation-extension
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"opentelemetry-instrumentation-extension": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/opentelemetry-instrumentation-extension"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
This skill provides OpenTelemetry instrumentation extensions. It allows for the automatic generation of traces and metrics from applications, providing valuable insights into their performance and behavior. This facilitates debugging, monitoring, and optimization efforts within complex systems.
When to use it
- Debugging Microservices: Identify bottlenecks and errors in distributed microservice architectures by automatically instrumenting calls between services.
- Performance Monitoring: Track key metrics like latency and throughput for applications and infrastructure components.
- Observability Enhancement: Improve the overall observability of a system, making it easier to understand its internal workings.
- Troubleshooting Production Issues: Quickly pinpoint the root cause of production incidents by analyzing automatically generated traces and metrics.
Key capabilities
- Automatic trace generation
- Metric collection
- Instrumentation extensions for OpenTelemetry
Example prompts
- "Instrument this application with OpenTelemetry."
- "Generate traces for all HTTP requests in this service."
- "Show me the latency distribution of database queries."
Tips & gotchas
This skill requires a working OpenTelemetry environment. Ensure that your applications are configured to export telemetry data to a compatible backend (e.g., Prometheus, Jaeger) for effective monitoring and analysis.
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