# Ollygarden Otel Java Setup

> Ollygarden's recommended pattern for setting up OpenTelemetry in Java services. Covers the Javaagent vs Spring Boot Starter vs manual autoconfigure decision-making, the Maven BOM dependency pattern, and the setup checklist (no query strings in telemetry, startup DB span hygiene, declarative YAML config, standard OTEL env vars honored). Use when adding OTel to a Java project, choosing a setup path, or reviewing dependency declarations. Triggers on "java otel setup", "javaagent vs starter", "opentelemetry-bom", "url.query", "query parameter PII".

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-ollygarden-ollygarden-otel-java-setup
- tashan id: skill:ollygarden/ollygarden-otel-java-setup
- Source: https://github.com/ollygarden/skills
- Type: skill
- Category: other
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 99.0
- Freshness: 98.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: Apache-2.0
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r ollygarden-otel-java-setup ~/.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 2026-09-12 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.