observability-onboarding
Onboard an application into Elastic Observability with the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT): route on language and runtime, detect and replace a classic Elastic APM agent, apply the required OTLP configuration, and then verify with ES|QL that traces, metrics, and logs actually arrive under the expected service name. Use when adding observability to a service, migrating off the classic Elastic APM agent, or debugging why an instrumented service is not showing up in Elastic.
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "elastic/claude-plugin:skills/observability/onboarding" into this agent's normal skills directory: call the OMGSkills MCP get_install_plan tool for your agent and run the script it returns (it installs only the pinned commit and verifies SKILL.md), and stop if MCP or the pin is unavailable. Do not overwrite or change existing skills without asking me.
Manual command
git clone https://github.com/elastic/claude-plugin /tmp/claude-plugin && ln -s /tmp/claude-plugin/skills/observability/onboarding ~/.claude/skills/observability-onboardingFrom README
Observability Onboarding Instrument an application with the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) and prove the telemetry arrived. The instrumentation change is only half the job: an application can be configured perfectly and still emit nothing, so this skill ends by querying Elasticsearch for the service's data rather than declaring success from a config diff. The scope is application instrumentation with the EDOT SDKs. Deploying an EDOT Collector, collecting logs from files or infrastructure, and onboarding data through Elastic Agent, Fleet, or integration packages are separate ingest paths that this skill does not cover. Once telemetry is flowing, use the observability-sre-triage skill to assess service health, observability-k8s-investigation for Kubernetes-layer failures, observability-service-reliability to define SLOs and alerts on the new signals, and observability-llm-obs for GenAI and agentic workloads.
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