cyberneticlibrary

Instrument MCP servers for observability

instrumentation-mcpskillsetup L20
traceloop/openllmetry-js
What it does

Trace MCP framework calls with OpenTelemetry spans

Best for

Production observability into agentic MCP workflows.

Inputs
  • · MCP client/server code
  • · OTEL exporter config
Outputs
  • · OTEL spans
  • · traced tool invocations
  • · latency metrics
Requires
  • · @opentelemetry/instrumentation
  • · @modelcontextprotocol/sdk
Preconditions

OpenTelemetry SDK initialized

Failure modes
  • · Instrumentation registration failure
Trust signals
  • · privacy traceContent config
  • · Apache 2.0 license