Provides guidance on OpenTelemetry SDK setup, custom instrumentation, and sending data to Honeycomb. Trigger phrases: "instrument my app", "add tracing", "set…
OpenTelemetry Instrumentation for Honeycomb SDK setup, custom spans, attributes, span events, sampling, and layered telemetry. For conceptual foundations (why wide events matter, how attributes connect to investigation), see the observability-fundamentals skill. OTLP Configuration and SDK Setup Every OTel SDK needs these environment variables to send data to Honeycomb: Required Environment Variables Base configuration: OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=your-service-name OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=https://api.honeycomb.io OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS="x-honeycomb-team=YOUR_API_KEY"
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