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observability-edot-dotnet-instrument

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.

How do I install this agent skill?

npx skills add https://github.com/elastic/agent-skills --skill observability-edot-dotnet-instrument
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Is this agent skill safe to install?

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    This skill provides legitimate configuration guidelines for instrumenting .NET applications with the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT). It references official documentation and standard industry packages.

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    No alerts

  • Snykpass

    Risk: LOW · No issues

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What does this agent skill do?

EDOT .NET Instrumentation

Read the setup guide before making changes:

Guidelines

  1. Add NuGet packages: Elastic.OpenTelemetry and OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AspNetCore (for ASP.NET Core apps)
  2. Register EDOT in startup: call builder.AddElasticOpenTelemetry() on the IHostApplicationBuilder (in Program.cs or equivalent). Without this, no telemetry is collected
  3. 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>"
  4. Do NOT set OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER, OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER, or OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER — the defaults are already correct
  5. Do NOT manually configure TracerProvider or MeterProvider — AddElasticOpenTelemetry() handles everything
  6. 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.

How can the creator link this skill?

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