Agent-skills observability-edot-python-migrate

install
source · Clone the upstream repo
git clone https://github.com/elastic/agent-skills
Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/
T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/elastic/agent-skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/observability/edot-python-migrate" ~/.claude/skills/elastic-agent-skills-observability-edot-python-migrate && rm -rf "$T"
manifest: skills/observability/edot-python-migrate/SKILL.md
source content

EDOT Python Migration

Read the migration guide before making changes:

Guidelines

  1. Remove ALL classic APM references:
    elastic-apm
    from requirements,
    ElasticAPM(app)
    /
    elasticapm.contrib.*
    from application code,
    app.config['ELASTIC_APM']
    blocks, and all
    ELASTIC_APM_*
    env vars
  2. Install
    elastic-opentelemetry
    via pip (add to
    requirements.txt
    or equivalent)
  3. Run
    edot-bootstrap --action=install
    during image build to install auto-instrumentation packages for detected libraries
  4. Wrap the application entrypoint with
    opentelemetry-instrument
    — e.g.
    opentelemetry-instrument gunicorn app:app
    . Without this, no telemetry is collected
  5. 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
      )
  6. Do NOT set
    OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER
    ,
    OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER
    , or
    OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER
    — the defaults are already correct
  7. Never run both classic
    elastic-apm
    and EDOT on the same application

Examples

See the EDOT Python migration guide for complete examples.