observability-edot-java-migrate

A migration guide for moving a Java application from Elastic’s older APM agent to the EDOT Java agent. APM means application performance monitoring, which collects information about how software runs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing Java startup options, dependencies, environment variables, and telemetry endpoints during an EDOT migration.
Why use it?
It identifies the old agent, settings, and connection details that must be removed and replaces them with the required OpenTelemetry setup.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elastic/agent-skills/edot-java-migrate
Any agent
npx skills add elastic/agent-skills --skill edot-java-migrate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elastic/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 567 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00045 $0.00567
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00283
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00057

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6ffb733bcf48, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observability-edot-java-migrate 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to observability-edot-java-instrument — 29 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/observability/skills/edot-java-migrate/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

EDOT Java Migration

Read the migration guide before making changes:

Guidelines

  1. Remove ALL classic APM references: elastic-apm-agent.jar, elasticapm.properties, all ELASTIC_APM_* env vars, and any co.elastic.apm Maven/Gradle dependencies
  2. Use elastic-otel-javaagent.jar (download from Maven Central, not a Maven/Gradle compile dependency)
  3. Attach via -javaagent:/path/to/elastic-otel-javaagent.jar or JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS="-javaagent:/path/to/elastic-otel-javaagent.jar" — without this the agent does nothing
  4. Set exactly three required environment variables:
    • OTEL_SERVICE_NAME (replaces ELASTIC_APM_SERVICE_NAME)
    • OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT — must be the managed OTLP endpoint or EDOT Collector URL. Do NOT reuse the old ELASTIC_APM_SERVER_URL value. 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>" (replaces ELASTIC_APM_SECRET_TOKEN / API_KEY)
  5. Do NOT set OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER, OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER, or OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER — the defaults are already correct
  6. Never run both classic Elastic APM agent and EDOT agent on the same JVM

Examples

See the EDOT Java migration guide for complete examples.

Changes

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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 43 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 6ffb733bcf48

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observability-edot-java-migrate is a skill published in the GitHub repository elastic/agent-skills (564 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 567 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to observability-edot-java-instrument, differing in 29 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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