observability-onboarding
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.