opentelemetry

Instrument your app and get every signal into Grafana.

application observability

What it does

Instruments applications with OpenTelemetry and routes telemetry to Grafana Cloud or self-hosted Grafana backends.

When to use it

Use when instrumenting services, configuring OTLP, migrating observability providers, choosing sampling, or troubleshooting missing spans.

Give it an application project and an observability goal; it instruments and configures the project and verifies its telemetry.

What you provide

This skill

Grafana Cloud OTLP endpoint

Write

Sends telemetry to Grafana Cloud

Kubernetes cluster

Write

Stores credentials in Kubernetes

Grafana Explore

Read

Checks telemetry in Grafana Explore

Alloy metrics endpoint

Read

Checks the Alloy metrics endpoint

Requires either a Grafana Cloud stack or self-hosted Mimir, Loki, and Tempo backends.

The Grafana Cloud numeric instance ID is read from shell environment variables and used as the Basic-auth username.

The Grafana Cloud API token is read from shell environment variables and must have metrics, logs, and traces publisher roles.