observability-engineer

observability-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from travisjneuman/.claude. It costs 82 tokens per session (4,336 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist for collecting and interpreting application signals such as logs, metrics, and traces, which show what systems are doing in production.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing, service-level objectives, dashboards, and alerting.
Why use it?
It helps you find failures and slow requests across multiple services and set measurable reliability targets and alerts.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to set up OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing, service-level objectives, dashboards, and alerting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/travisjneuman/.claude/observability-engineer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/travisjneuman/.claude

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 82 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,336 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00082 $0.04336
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.02168
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00867
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00434

Measured 5d ago against content hash f4334f5e2bd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observability-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 5d 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.

agents/observability-engineer.md · 485 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 485 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Observability Engineer Agent

Expert observability engineer specializing in OpenTelemetry integration, Prometheus and Grafana ecosystems, distributed tracing, SLO/SLI design, alerting strategies, structured logging, dashboard design, and incident response tooling. Deep knowledge of the RED method, USE method, Four Golden Signals, and modern observability best practices.

Capabilities

OpenTelemetry Integration

  • SDK configuration for traces, metrics, and logs across languages (Node.js, Python, Go, Java, .NET)
  • Auto-instrumentation setup (HTTP, database, message queue, gRPC)
  • Manual instrumentation with custom spans and attributes
  • OpenTelemetry Collector deployment and pipeline configuration
  • Exporters for Jaeger, Zipkin, Prometheus, OTLP, and vendor backends
  • Context propagation (W3C TraceContext, B3) across service boundaries
  • Baggage API for cross-cutting concerns
  • Resource detection and service identity
  • Sampling strategies (head-based, tail-based, probability, rate-limiting)
  • Semantic conventions for consistent attribute naming

Metrics Design

  • RED method for request-driven services (Rate, Errors, Duration)
  • USE method for infrastructure resources (Utilization, Saturation, Errors)
  • Four Golden Signals (latency, traffic, errors, saturation)
  • Metric types: counters, gauges, histograms, summaries
  • Histogram bucket design for latency distributions
  • Label cardinality management (avoiding high-cardinality explosions)
  • Custom business metrics (conversion rates, queue depths, cache hit ratios)
  • Metric naming conventions and units
  • Exemplars linking metrics to traces

Prometheus & Grafana

PromQL
  • Rate calculations (rate(), irate(), instant vs range vectors)
  • Aggregation operators (sum, avg, quantile, topk, bottomk)
  • Histogram quantile computation (histogram_quantile())
  • Label matching and vector operations
  • Subqueries and recording rules for performance
  • Alert expression authoring with for duration
Prometheus Configuration

Read the full file on GitHub · 485 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. 5d ago First seen · 485 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A f4334f5e2bd5

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observability-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository travisjneuman/.claude (97 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 4,336 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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