# Otel Instrumentation

> Provides guidance on OpenTelemetry SDK setup, custom instrumentation, and sending data to Honeycomb. Trigger phrases: "instrument my app", "add tracing", "set up OpenTelemetry", "configure OTel", "add custom spans", "add attributes to spans", "send traces to Honeycomb", "set up OTLP", "configure sampling", "add span events", "add span links", "set up tracing for [any language]", "configure the OTel Collector", or any request about OpenTelemetry SDK setup, custom instrumentation, or sending data to Honeycomb.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-honeycombio-otel-instrumentation
- tashan id: skill:honeycombio/otel-instrumentation
- Source: https://github.com/honeycombio/agent-skill
- Type: skill
- Category: database
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 95.0
- Freshness: 89.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: MIT
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r otel-instrumentation ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-20 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.