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observability-edot-python-instrument

Q: How do I install this agent skill?

Run npx skills add https://github.com/elastic/agent-skills --skill observability-edot-python-instrument.

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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.

How do I install this agent skill?

npx skills add https://github.com/elastic/agent-skills --skill observability-edot-python-instrument

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Is this agent skill safe to install?

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What does this agent skill do?

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.

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