k8s-opentelemetry-collector-troubleshooting SKILL.md skillA
k8s-opentelemetry-collector-troubleshooting from k8s-servant/k8s-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add k8s-servant/k8s-skills/k8s-opentelemetry-collector-troubleshooting@git:20261025.033cc6ePins git:20261025.033cc6e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- k8s-servant/k8s-skills
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skills/k8s-opentelemetry-collector-troubleshooting/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261025.033cc6e, committed Oct 25, 2026
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- 10,675 bytes
- Repository stars
- 35
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when telemetry (traces, metrics, logs) does not get through the OpenTelemetry Collector on Kubernetes: the collector crashes at start ("invalid configuration", "references receiver ... which is not configured", "unknown type"), applications get "connection refused" on 4317 or 4318 (a receiver listening on localhost, or not in a pipeline), exporters fail ("Exporting failed. Will retry the request after interval", "Exporting failed. Dropping data.", "sending queue is full…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# OpenTelemetry Collector troubleshooting Find out why telemetry does not pass through the OpenTelemetry Collector, and propose a fix. **Read first, ask before changing.** Run the investigation commands freely. Run a command under an "Ask first" line only after the user approves that exact command; if your credentials do not allow it, give it to the user to run. Never run a "Proposed fix"; hand it to the user. A collector's config defines **receivers** (OTLP on 4317 for gRPC and 4318 for HTTP, Prometheus, ...), **processors** (`memory_limiter`, `batch`, `k8s_attributes`, ...), **exporters** (`otlp_grpc`, `otlp_http`, `debug`, ...) and **extensions** (`health_check`, ...), and then the `service.pipelines` that connect them. A component that no pipeline uses is not started at all, without a warning. The collector checks the config at start and exits with `Error: ...` when it is invalid. At run time it logs failed exports with the exporter's name and the error. Collectors often run as an agent (DaemonSet, sidecar) that forwards to a gateway (Deployment), so follow the data hop by hop. The commands use placeholders: `my-namespace`, `my-collector` (the collector workload, …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add k8s-servant/k8s-skills/k8s-opentelemetry-collector-troubleshooting@sha256:2c9ab223fbfa129cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.033cc6e, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
k8s-servant/k8s-skills · 35 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
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