SKILL.md
EDOT .NET Instrumentation
Read the setup guide before making changes:
Guidelines
- Add NuGet packages:
Elastic.OpenTelemetryandOpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AspNetCore(for ASP.NET Core apps)
- Register EDOT in startup: call
builder.AddElasticOpenTelemetry()on theIHostApplicationBuilder(inProgram.cs
or equivalent). 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, orOTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER— the defaults are already
correct
- Do NOT manually configure
TracerProviderorMeterProvider—AddElasticOpenTelemetry()handles everything
- 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.