Observability Edot Dotnet Instrument Agent Skill
> Instrument a .NET application with the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) .NET SDK for automatic tracing, metrics, and logs. Use when adding observability to a .NET service that has no existing APM agent.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/elastic/agent-skills --skill observability-edot-dotnet-instrumentThe instruction itself
3 sections, as written by the authorEDOT .NET Instrumentation
Read the setup guide before making changes:
Guidelines
- Add NuGet packages:
Elastic.OpenTelemetryandOpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AspNetCore(for ASP.NET Core apps) - Register EDOT in startup: call
builder.AddElasticOpenTelemetry()on theIHostApplicationBuilder(inProgram.cs
or equivalent). Without this, no telemetry is collected
- Set exactly three required environment variables:
OTEL_SERVICE_NAMEOTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT— must be the managed OTLP endpoint or EDOT Collector URL. Never use an APM
Server URL (no apm-server, no :8200, no /intake/v2/events)
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS—"Authorization=ApiKey <key>"or"Authorization=Bearer <token>"- Do NOT set
OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER,OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER, orOTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER— the defaults are already
correct
- Do NOT manually configure
TracerProviderorMeterProvider—AddElasticOpenTelemetry()handles everything - Never run both classic Elastic APM agent (
Elastic.Apm.*) and EDOT on the same application
Examples
See the EDOT .NET setup guide for complete
examples.
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How to use it
Take elastic/observability-edot-dotnet-instrument from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.