otel-instrumentation

Configures trace spans, defines custom metrics, sets up log exporters, and optimizes sampling strategies for OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Use when instrumenting applications with traces, metrics, or logs. Triggers on requests for observability, telemetry, tracing, metrics collection, logging integration, or OTel setup.

1.38x

Quality

100%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

94%

1.38x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

Securityby

Advisory

Suggest reviewing before use

Evaluation results

90%

-10%

Adding Observability to the Inventory API

Node.js OTel SDK setup

Criteria

Without context

With context

CommonJS flag

100%

Traces exporter enabled

100%

Metrics exporter enabled

100%

Logs exporter enabled

100%

Service name from manifest

100%

gRPC protocol set

100%

Flush on uncaughtException

100%

Flush on unhandledRejection

100%

ProxyTracerProvider unwrapped

100%

Auth header format

100%

No sampler configured

100%

94%

31%

Instrumenting the Order Service with Traces, Metrics, and Logs

Span, metric, and log instrumentation

Criteria

Without context

With context

Low-cardinality span names

75%

87%

Correct span kind for DB calls

12%

75%

Correct span kind for HTTP client

12%

62%

Headless root span

100%

Exception as log record

20%

100%

Exception attributes on log

25%

100%

Trace correlation in logs

100%

Histogram for latency

100%

UCUM units on metrics

62%

100%

No high-cardinality metric attributes

100%

Dot-separated attribute names

50%

100%

No PII in telemetry

100%

58%

Configuring OpenTelemetry for the Checkout Service on Kubernetes

Kubernetes OTel deployment config

Criteria

Without context

With context

k8s.pod.uid via downward API

100%

k8s.pod.name via downward API

100%

k8s.node.name via downward API

100%

k8s.container.name as literal

100%

service.name set

100%

deployment.environment.name set

100%

OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER=otlp

100%

OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER=otlp

100%

OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER=otlp

100%

Auth token from Secret

83%

100%

DaemonSet endpoint reference

100%

service.instance.id unique

100%

Repository: dash0hq/agent-skills
Commit: cb7cf0d

Evaluated: about 1 month ago
Agent: Claude Code
Model: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Table of Contents

Adding Observability to the Inventory API Instrumenting the Order Service with Traces, Metrics, and Logs Configuring OpenTelemetry for the Checkout Service on Kubernetes

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