Observability Setup

Overview

This skill helps AI agents implement the three pillars of observability — traces, metrics, and structured logs — across microservice architectures. It uses OpenTelemetry as the instrumentation standard and Grafana's LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) as the backend, though patterns apply to any OTel-compatible backend.

Instructions

OpenTelemetry Instrumentation (Node.js)

1. Install packages:

   npm install @opentelemetry/sdk-node @opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node \
     @opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http @opentelemetry/exporter-metrics-otlp-http