Azure Microsoft Opentelemetry Skill

SkillCloud & infra

Expert knowledge for Azure Microsoft Opentelemetry development including configuration. Use when setting sampling, exporters, resource attributes, env vars, or tuning tracing/metrics behavior, and other Azure Microsoft Opentelemetry related development tasks. Not for Azure Monitor (use azure-monitor).

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Azure Microsoft Opentelemetry Skill skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by microsoftdocs/agent-skills in skills/azure-microsoft-opentelemetry/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Microsoft Opentelemetry. Covers configuration. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., [security.md](security.md)), use read_file on the linked reference file

IMPORTANT for Agent: If metadata.generated_at is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If mcp_microsoftdocs tools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide

This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

  • Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
  • Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

CategoryLinesDescription
ConfigurationL29-L32How to configure Microsoft OpenTelemetry Distro options (sampling, exporters, resource attributes, environment variables) and tune tracing/metrics behavior for your applications.

Configuration

TopicURL
Configure Microsoft OpenTelemetry Distro settings and optionshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/microsoft-opentelemetry/configuration

Signals

GitHub stars
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Last commit
Sep 2026
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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
azure-microsoft-opentelemetry
Source
github.com/microsoftdocs/agent-skills