# observability > Distributed tracing with Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, and observability platforms for microservices insights - Author: pluginagentmarketplace - Repository: pluginagentmarketplace/custom-plugin-devops - Version: 20260105115526 - Stars: 2 - Forks: 0 - Last Updated: 2026-02-06 - Source: https://github.com/pluginagentmarketplace/custom-plugin-devops - Web: https://mule.run/skillshub/@@pluginagentmarketplace/custom-plugin-devops~observability:20260105115526 --- --- 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