Best agent skills for OpenTelemetry
We found 66 agent skills for OpenTelemetry in the catalog; these are the 15 that rank highest. The order comes from our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness, documentation and publisher identity. Nobody can pay for a place on this list. otel-browser, otel-collector-builder and observability-onboarding lead it. observability-onboarding, observability-k8s-investigation and agent-platform-alert-configuration are published by the company that makes them. agent-platform-alert-configuration comes from the largest repository here (21,542 stars). 9 of the 15 had activity in the last 30 days. Each entry lists why it made the list and links to its install page.
Updated Oct 26, 2026 · Built from catalog data; how we rank and grade
Top 15 of 66
- 1otel-browser
ollygarden
OpenTelemetry browser/RUM mechanics for SPAs and MPAs.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
- Ships helper scripts
★ 116Last active Oct 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2otel-collector-builder
ollygarden
Build custom OpenTelemetry Collector distributions with OCB (OpenTelemetry Collector Builder).
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 116Last active Oct 15, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3observability-onboarding
elasticOfficial
Onboard an application into Elastic Observability with the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT): route on language and runtime, detect and replace a…
- Published by the vendor
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 600Last active Sep 4, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 4observability-k8s-investigation
elasticOfficial
Investigate Kubernetes workload, node, and control-plane issues using OTel telemetry (EDOT).
- Published by the vendor
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 600Last active Sep 4, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 5nat-telemetry
NVIDIA
Use when adding, configuring, or troubleshooting NeMo Agent Toolkit logging, tracing, telemetry exporters, OpenTelemetry, Langfuse, LangSmith, Weave, Phoenix…
- Repository has 2.7K stars
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
- Ships helper scripts
★ 2.7KLast active Sep 10, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 6agent-platform-alert-configuration
googleOfficial
Configures best-practice alerting policies for AI agents using OpenTelemetry (OTel) metrics, generating output as Terraform (.tf) configuration files.
- Published by the vendor
- Largest repository here (21,542 stars)
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 21.5KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7clickstack-otel-collector
ClickHouse IncOfficial
Use when a user wants to wire an OpenTelemetry collector into a Managed ClickStack service on ClickHouse Cloud, either by deploying a new local collector…
- Published by the vendor
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 560Last active Jul 13, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 8agent-observability-engineer
travisjneuman
Specialist subagent: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing, SLO design, and alerting specialist.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 106Last active Sep 30, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9monitoring-observability
travisjneuman
OpenTelemetry, structured logging, distributed tracing, alerting, and dashboards.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 106Last active Sep 30, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10build-audit-trails
jagreehal
Build or review tamper-aware audit trails on top of OpenTelemetry spans using autotel and the autotel-audit package (`withAudit`, `setAuditAttributes`…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 8Last active Oct 19, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11analyze-traces
jagreehal
Analyze OpenTelemetry traces and structured logs from a running autotel service to debug errors, investigate latency, follow requests across services, and…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 8Last active Sep 27, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12azure-monitor-opentelemetry-py
MicrosoftOfficial
Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro for Python.
- Published by the vendor
- Repository has 3.1K stars
- Open source (MIT)
★ 3.1KLast active Jul 28, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 13scaffold-observability
SyntaxArc
Configure ArchiPy 5.x OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, logs, and instrumentation.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 3Last active Oct 18, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 14monica-opentelemetry
Tairitsua
Monica OpenTelemetry and metrics development guidance.
- Open source (MIT)
★ 14Last active Sep 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 15docs-observability
SyntaxArc
Open ArchiPy OpenTelemetry guidance (traces, metrics, logs)
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 3Last active Oct 18, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet