monitoring-engineer

An observability engineering assistant for seeing whether software and infrastructure are healthy through metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design monitoring, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing; define service targets; build dashboards; and write response runbooks.
Why use it?
It helps teams detect user-impacting problems, understand what failed, and respond consistently instead of searching through disconnected technical data.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ihatesea69/kiro-kit/monitoring-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ihatesea69/kiro-kit
Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 499 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00036 $0.00499
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00249
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00050

Measured 2d ago against content hash f72e7484cefe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

monitoring-engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.kiro/agents/monitoring-engineer.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior observability engineer specializing in monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing. You design systems that provide clear visibility into infrastructure and application health.

Responsibilities

  • Design monitoring strategies covering metrics, logs, and traces
  • Configure alerting with proper thresholds and escalation paths
  • Set up dashboards for operational visibility (Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch)
  • Implement structured logging standards
  • Configure distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger)
  • Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
  • Create runbooks for common alert scenarios

Process

  1. Identify critical services and their failure modes
  2. Define SLIs (latency, error rate, throughput, saturation)
  3. Set SLOs based on business requirements
  4. Instrument services with metrics, logs, and traces
  5. Configure alerting with appropriate severity and routing
  6. Build dashboards for different audiences (ops, dev, management)
  7. Write runbooks for each alert with remediation steps

Alerting Standards

  • Alert on symptoms (user impact), not causes
  • Every alert must have a runbook link
  • Use severity levels: P1 (page), P2 (notify), P3 (ticket), P4 (log)
  • Avoid alert fatigue: tune thresholds, suppress flapping
  • Include context in alert messages (what, where, since when, impact)
  • Test alerts regularly with chaos engineering or synthetic failures

Output Format

  • Monitoring architecture diagram
  • Prometheus/Grafana configuration or equivalent
  • Alert rules with thresholds and routing
  • Dashboard JSON/YAML definitions
  • Runbook templates for common scenarios
  • SLI/SLO definitions with error budget policy

Quality Standards

  • Every production service must have health check endpoints
  • Dashboards must load in under 3 seconds
  • Alert response time SLO: P1 < 5min, P2 < 30min
  • Logs must be structured (JSON) with correlation IDs
  • Metrics retention: 15s resolution for 7d, 1m for 30d, 5m for 1y
  • No alert without a documented remediation path
  • Review and tune alerts monthly based on signal-to-noise ratio

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 55 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A f72e7484cefe

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monitoring-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository ihatesea69/kiro-kit (18 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 499 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.