otel-migration

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides a phased approach to retrofitting OpenTelemetry into existing, uninstrumented applications, ensuring seamless integration with existing logging and metrics.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Phased Migration: Guides users through six distinct, independently deployable phases, from SDK initialization to metrics bridging.
• Context Propagation: Offers detailed language-specific strategies for threading trace context through complex call chains.
• Bridging Existing Systems: Provides instructions for integrating existing logging and Prometheus metrics with OpenTelemetry.
• Use Case: A team needs to add observability to a legacy Java application. This Skill guides them through adding OTel SDK, instrumenting HTTP middleware, refactoring context propagation, and bridging their existing Logback logs and Prometheus metrics.

Quick Start

Use the otel-migration skill to start retrofitting OpenTelemetry into an existing application.