Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add dash0hq/agent-skills --skill otel-collectorgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dash0hq/agent-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dash0hq/agent-skills/otel-collector)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dash0hq/agent-skills/otel-collector"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dash0hq/agent-skills/otel-collector/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dash0hq/agent-skills/otel-collector"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dash0hq/agent-skills/otel-collector.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00067 | $0.01769 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00034 | $0.00885 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00354 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00177 |
Grade A, and why
otel-collector scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
OpenTelemetry Collector configuration guide
Expert guidance for configuring and deploying the OpenTelemetry Collector to receive, process, and export telemetry.
Rules
| Rule | Description |
|---|---|
| receivers | Receivers — OTLP, Prometheus, filelog, hostmetrics |
| exporters | Exporters — OTLP/gRPC to Dash0, debug, authentication |
| processors | Processors — memory limiter, resource detection, ordering, sending queue |
| pipelines | Pipelines — service section, per-signal configuration, connectors |
| deployment | Deployment — agent vs gateway patterns, deployment method selection |
| dash0-operator | Dash0 Kubernetes Operator — automated instrumentation, Collector management, Dash0 export |
| collector-helm-chart | Collector Helm chart — presets, modes, image selection |
| opentelemetry-operator | OpenTelemetry Operator — Collector CRD, auto-instrumentation, sidecar |
| raw-manifests | Raw Kubernetes manifests — DaemonSet, Deployment, RBAC, Docker Compose |
| sampling | Sampling — head, tail, load balancing |
| red-metrics | RED metrics — span-derived request rate, error rate, duration histograms |
| custom-distributions | Custom distributions — building a stripped-down Collector binary with OCB |
Key principles
- Processor ordering matters.
Place
memory_limiterfirst in every pipeline. Use the exporter'ssending_queuewithfile_storageinstead of thebatchprocessor. Incorrect ordering causes memory exhaustion or data loss. - One pipeline per signal type. Define separate pipelines for traces, metrics, and logs. Mixing signals in a single pipeline breaks processing and causes runtime errors.
- Every declared component must appear in a pipeline. The Collector rejects configurations that declare receivers, processors, or exporters not referenced by any pipeline.
- Consistent resource enrichment across pipelines.
Apply processors that enrich resource attributes like
resourcedetectionandk8sattributesto every signal pipeline (traces, metrics, and logs), not just one. If one pipeline enriches telemetry withk8s.namespace.nameorhost.namebut another does not, correlation between signals is compromised by incomplete metadata. - Memory safety is non-negotiable.
Always configure
memory_limiterin production. Without it, a burst of telemetry can cause the Collector to OOM and crash.
What ships with it
13 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- README.md 4.8 KB
- rules/custom-distributions.md 6.5 KB
- rules/deployment.md 4.1 KB
- rules/deployment/collector-helm-chart.md 11 KB
- rules/deployment/dash0-operator.md 19 KB
- rules/deployment/opentelemetry-operator.md 15 KB
- rules/deployment/raw-manifests.md 18 KB
- rules/exporters.md 8.3 KB
- rules/pipelines.md 9.0 KB
- rules/processors.md 17 KB
- rules/receivers.md 12 KB
- rules/red-metrics.md 16 KB
- rules/sampling.md 11 KB
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 11d ago First seen · 138 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 1724a5fccf6c
otel-collector is a skill published in the GitHub repository dash0hq/agent-skills (89 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,769 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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