Enable Tracing & Logging for MAF Workflows

Configure OpenTelemetry-based tracing for Microsoft Agent Framework workflows, exporting to Azure Application Insights and/or a generic OTLP endpoint.

Triggers

Activate this skill when the user wants to:

• Enable tracing or logging for a MAF workflow
• Export telemetry to Azure Application Insights
• Export traces to an OTLP-compatible endpoint (Jaeger, Zipkin, Grafana Tempo, etc.)
• Add observability or monitoring to an agent-framework project
• Debug or inspect executor/agent/LLM spans in a MAF workflow

Background

MAF automatically emits OpenTelemetry spans for every executor invocation, agent call, and LLM request. No instrumentation changes are needed inside Executor classes. You only need to:

1. Configure an exporter — where spans are sent (Application Insights, OTLP endpoint, or both)
2. Call configure_otel_providers() — activates MAF's built-in instrumentation