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otel-collector

otel-collector is a skill for Claude Code from ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills. It costs 83 tokens per session (4,407 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reference guide for configuring individual OpenTelemetry Collector components. These components receive, process, export, connect, or otherwise manage telemetry data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing Collector YAML for receivers, processors, exporters, connectors, or extensions.
Why use it?
It helps you check the exact configuration keys, defaults, supported data types, stability, and version-specific behavior for a component.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the opentelemetry-agent-skills plugin — 20 skills shipped together

not rated 125repo +5 changed 7d ago A scan SkillSpector: pass 83 tokens original Apache-2.0

Good fit Use it when writing or reviewing Collector YAML for receivers, processors, exporters, connectors, or extensions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills/otel-collector
View source ↗ ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills ollygarden.com
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills --skill otel-collector
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install opentelemetry-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin otel-collector — /plugin install otel-collector after adding the marketplace above.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,407 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found 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 5.1 $0.00083 $0.04407
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.01763
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00881
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00441

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4a5c95b4cc6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

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 7d 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.

skills/otel-collector/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenTelemetry Collector

This skill covers the configuration surface of individual OpenTelemetry Collector components. It targets opentelemetry-collector and opentelemetry-collector-contrib.

It does not cover OTTL expressions (see otel-ottl), declarative SDK configuration (otel-declarative-config), deploying the eBPF profiler or other profiles producers (otel-profiles), or end-to-end pipeline design choices. Reach for those skills when the question is about transformation language, SDK setup, or pipeline composition.

Workflow

  1. Identify the component. Find the type in the user's config or question (log_dedup, interval, otlp, …). Note that many components have been renamed to snake_case since v0.146.0 with deprecated aliases preserved — see Recent renames.
  2. Load the component page before answering. If the component is in the Component index, always read components/<type>/README.md first — the top-level index is only a routing aid, not enough evidence for an answer. Follow its Details index to the smallest relevant file: read configuration.md for versioned keys, defaults, or validation; quirks.md for stability, availability, failure behavior, or migration traps; and the other detail files only as the question requires. Do not infer exact configuration or status from the summary row or memory.
  3. If the component is not indexed, say so explicitly and fall back to the upstream README under processor/<name>/, receiver/<name>/, exporter/<name>/, connector/<name>/, or extension/<name>/ in opentelemetry-collector-contrib. Don't invent config keys from memory — Collector components evolve quickly.
  4. Apply Collector-wide conventions. Named instances (type/name), stability levels, and pipeline placement rules in Collector-wide conventions apply to every component.
  5. Verify. Run the component page's Verification recipe — telemetrygen (see the otel-telemetrygen skill) plus a debug or file exporter — to confirm the component behaves as the docs claim. Alpha- and Development-stability components are common here, and behavior changes between releases. See Verification harness for how to run a recipe end-to-end.

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 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.

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.

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otel-collector is a skill published in the GitHub repository ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills (125 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 4,407 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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