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Observability Edot Python Instrument

elastic/observability-edot-python-instrument

> Instrument a Python application with the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) Python agent for automatic tracing, metrics, and logs. Use when adding observability to a Python service that has no existing APM agent.

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository 
npx skills add https://github.com/elastic/agent-skills --skill observability-edot-python-instrument

The instruction itself

3 sections, as written by the author

EDOT Python Instrumentation

Read the setup guide before making changes:

Guidelines

  • Install elastic-opentelemetry via pip (add to requirements.txt or equivalent)
  • Run edot-bootstrap --action=install during image build to install auto-instrumentation packages for detected

libraries

  • Wrap the application entrypoint with opentelemetry-instrument — e.g. opentelemetry-instrument gunicorn app:app or

opentelemetry-instrument python app.py. Without this, no telemetry is collected

  • Set exactly three required environment variables:
  • OTEL_SERVICE_NAME
  • OTEL_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, or OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER — the defaults are already

correct

  • Do NOT add code-level SDK setup (no TracerProvider, no configure_azure_monitor, etc.) —

opentelemetry-instrument handles everything

  • Never run both classic elastic-apm and EDOT on the same application

Examples

See the EDOT Python setup guide for

complete examples.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take elastic/observability-edot-python-instrument from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

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.