opentelemetry
Instrument any app with OpenTelemetry and ship metrics / logs / traces to Grafana Cloud or self-hosted Mimir / Loki / Tempo / Pyroscope. Covers SDK auto-instrumentation for Go, Java (Grafana JVM agent), Python (`opentelemetry-instrument`), Node.js, .NET (`Grafana.OpenTelemetry`), Beyla eBPF for zero-code; Grafana Cloud OTLP gateway + Basic-auth (instanceID + API key, base64); env-var config (`OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_*`, `OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES`); Alloy / OTel-Collector pipelines; Kubernetes Operator inject-annotations; and head + tail sampling. Use when instrumenting a service, pointing OTLP at Grafana Cloud, switching from Jaeger / Datadog / New Relic, choosing head- vs tail-sampling, or debugging "spans aren't showing in Explore" — even when the user says "auto-instrument my Java app", "send traces to Grafana", "what env vars do I set", "OTLP endpoint", or "Operator inject" without naming OpenTelemetry.
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "grafana/skills:opentelemetry" 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/grafana/skills /tmp/skills && ln -s /tmp/skills/skills/grafana-core/opentelemetry ~/.claude/skills/opentelemetryFrom README
OpenTelemetry with Grafana Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/opentelemetry/ Vendor-neutral instrumentation pipeline. Apps speak OTLP → Alloy (or direct) → Grafana Cloud (Mimir / Loki / Tempo / Pyroscope). Backends | Signal | Backend | |--------|---------| | Metrics | Grafana Mimir | | Logs | Grafana Loki | | Traces | Grafana Tempo | | Profiles | Grafana Pyroscope | Prerequisites Grafana Cloud stack OR self-hosted Mimir / Loki / Tempo Cloud OTLP endpoint: https://otlp-gateway- .grafana.net/otlp Basic-auth credentials: numeric instance ID + API token with MetricsPublisher + LogsPublisher + TracesPublisher An app to instrument Common Workflows Authenticate to the Grafana Cloud OTLP endpoint Auto-instrument a Java app + verify Auto-instrument a Python app Add Alloy as a buffering / sampling collector Full Alloy config + tail-sampling block + OTel Collector YAML + K8s Operator references/collector-config.md.
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