Setup & Installation
npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/skills --skill azure-monitor-opentelemetry-ts
https://github.com/microsoft/skills/tree/main/.github/plugins/azure-sdk-typescript/skills/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-ts
View on GitHubWhat This Skill Does
Instruments Node.js applications with distributed tracing, metrics, and logs using the OpenTelemetry SDK and Azure Monitor as the backend. Connects to Application Insights via a connection string and auto-instruments common libraries like Express, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Redis. Supports both auto-instrumentation with a single setup call and manual exporter configuration for custom pipelines.
Auto-instrumentation via useAzureMonitor() captures HTTP, database, and Azure SDK calls without manually wrapping each call, which would otherwise require significant boilerplate for each library.
When to use it
- Adding distributed tracing to a Node.js Express API with zero code changes
- Sending custom histograms and counters to Application Insights from a background worker
- Routing structured logs from a TypeScript service into Azure Monitor for querying
- Filtering or enriching spans before export using a custom span processor
- Uploading batches of custom log records to a Data Collection Rule endpoint