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otel-genai-instrumentation

Skill

Guides instrumentation of GenAI/LLM applications with OpenTelemetry for Honeycomb, including content capture and agent failure detection. Trigger phrases: "instrument my GenAI app", "add tracing to LLM calls", "trace AI agent", "instrument OpenAI", "instrument Anthropic", "GenAI observability", "tra

Install

git clone https://github.com/honeycombio/agent-skill.git ~/.claude/skills/otel-genai-instrumentation

What is otel-genai-instrumentation?

Guides instrumentation of GenAI/LLM applications with OpenTelemetry for Honeycomb, including content capture and agent failure detection. Trigger phrases: "instrument my GenAI app", "add tracing to LLM calls", "trace AI agent", "instrument OpenAI", "instrument Anthropic", "GenAI observability", "trace tool calling", "LLM token usage", "instrument embeddings", "trace MCP", "GenAI metrics", "instrument LangChain", "add GenAI spans", "capture prompts", "capture LLM responses", "enable GenAI content capture", "streaming tracing", "trace streaming responses", or any request about instrumenting GenAI/LLM applications.

What this can do

Capabilities declared in this component's own frontmatter — not inferred.

Inherit all session tools

Declares no tool restrictions — inherits every session tool

~155 tokens of context used while enabled, before you invoke anything

Documentation

README · ~17 min read

GenAI Instrumentation for Honeycomb

Instrumenting LLM and agent applications using OTel Semantic Conventions for GenAI (currently v1.40.0, Development status). For conceptual foundations, see the observability-fundamentals skill.

Base OTEL Setup (Required First)

BEFORE implementing GenAI instrumentation, ensure your base OpenTelemetry configuration is complete.

Use the otel-instrumentation skill to configure all standard OTEL environment variables (OTEL_SERVICE_NAME, OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT, OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS, OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL, signal-specific endpoints, etc.) and verify basic spans are flowing to Honeycomb.

GenAI instrumentation adds GenAI-specific configuration on top of that base setup.

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