OpenTelemetry Integrator Skill

Overview

This skill integrates OpenTelemetry observability into SDKs, providing distributed tracing, metrics collection, and context propagation for comprehensive API monitoring.

Capabilities

• Add tracing spans to SDK operations
• Export metrics (latency, errors, throughput)
• Configure context propagation (W3C Trace Context)
• Support multiple exporters (OTLP, Jaeger, Zipkin)
• Implement custom span attributes
• Configure sampling strategies
• Add semantic conventions for SDK operations
• Support baggage propagation

Target Processes

• Observability Integration
• Telemetry and Analytics Integration
• Logging and Diagnostics

Integration Points

• OpenTelemetry SDKs (all languages)
• Jaeger for distributed tracing
• Prometheus for metrics
• Grafana for visualization
• Cloud observability platforms

Input Requirements

• Tracing requirements
• Metrics to collect
• Exporter configurations
• Sampling strategy
• Semantic convention mappings

Output Artifacts

• OpenTelemetry instrumentation
• Custom span definitions
• Metrics collectors
• Exporter configurations
• Propagator setup
• Sampling configuration

Usage Example

skill:
  name: opentelemetry-integrator
  context:
    tracing:
      enabled: true
      propagator: w3c-trace-context
      sampling: parentBased
      sampleRate: 0.1
    metrics:
      enabled: true
      exportInterval: 30s
      metrics:
        - sdk.request.duration
        - sdk.request.count
        - sdk.error.count
    exporters:
      traces: otlp
      metrics: prometheus
    serviceName: "my-sdk"

Best Practices

1. Follow OpenTelemetry semantic conventions
2. Use appropriate sampling rates
3. Propagate context across boundaries
4. Include useful span attributes
5. Avoid high-cardinality attributes
6. Configure exporters for production