Instrumentation Planning

This skill plans what to instrument and why, producing an actionable instrumentation plan tied to SLOs/SLIs. It does not generate code. Implementation mechanics — semconv lookups, SDK setup, language-specific instrumentation code — are handled by the ollygarden-otel-manual-instrumentation skill.

Philosophy

Instrumentation exists to understand runtime behavior when debugging production issues. It is not documentation, not logging-for-the-sake-of-logging, and not a checkbox exercise.

OllyGarden's core beliefs: