OpenTelemetry

Purpose

Implement OpenTelemetry for vendor-neutral observability across distributed systems, covering traces, metrics, and logs collection, processing, and export to multiple backends.

Agent Protocol

Trigger

Exact user phrases: "OpenTelemetry", "OTel", "OTLP", "tracing", "distributed tracing", "OpenTelemetry Collector", "OTel SDK", "auto-instrumentation", "tail sampling", "OTel exporter", "Jaeger", "Zipkin", "context propagation", "span", "trace".

Input Context

Before activating, verify:

• Programming language(s) and framework(s) used.
• Existing observability backends (Jaeger, Prometheus, Datadog, etc.).
• Deployment environment (Kubernetes, VMs, serverless).
• Collection, sampling, and export requirements.

Output Artifact

Writes to OTel Collector YAML configuration, SDK initialization code, and deployment manifests.