---
name: observability
description: Distributed tracing with Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, and observability platforms for microservices insights
sasmp_version: "1.3.0"
bonded_agent: 06-monitoring-observability
bond_type: SECONDARY_BOND
---

# Observability Skill

## MANDATORY
- Three pillars: Logs, Metrics, Traces
- OpenTelemetry instrumentation
- Jaeger distributed tracing
- Trace context propagation
- Service dependency mapping

## OPTIONAL
- Zipkin tracing
- New Relic APM
- Datadog APM
- Honeycomb observability
- SLOs and error budgets

## ADVANCED
- Custom instrumentation
- Sampling strategies
- Continuous profiling
- Chaos engineering integration
- Observability-driven development

## Assets
- See `assets/observability-config.yaml` for tracing setup