Observability & Monitoring

Observability & Monitoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ArieGoldkin/ai-agent-hub. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,278 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to watching software through logs, measurements, request traces, and alerts. Logs record events, measurements show performance over time, and traces show how a request moves between services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design structured logs, add metrics and dashboards, trace requests across services, configure alerts, and debug live applications.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand what happened, spot problems, investigate production failures, and receive warnings when systems need attention.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to design structured logs, add metrics and dashboards, trace requests across services, configure alerts, and debug live applications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ariegoldkin/ai-agent-hub/observability-monitoring
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ArieGoldkin/ai-agent-hub --skill observability-monitoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArieGoldkin/ai-agent-hub

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,278 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 $0.00017 $0.01278
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00639
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00128

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0f21f74dae56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Observability & Monitoring 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (templates/health-checks.ts, templates/opentelemetry-tracing.ts, templates/prometheus-metrics.ts, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/observability-monitoring/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Observability & Monitoring Skill

Comprehensive frameworks for implementing observability including structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting.

When to Use

  • Setting up application monitoring
  • Implementing structured logging
  • Adding metrics and dashboards
  • Configuring distributed tracing
  • Creating alerting rules
  • Debugging production issues

Three Pillars of Observability

┌─────────────────┬─────────────────┬─────────────────┐
│     LOGS        │     METRICS     │     TRACES      │
├─────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ What happened   │ How is system   │ How do requests │
│ at specific     │ performing      │ flow through    │
│ point in time   │ over time       │ services        │
└─────────────────┴─────────────────┴─────────────────┘

Structured Logging

Log Levels

Level Use Case
ERROR Unhandled exceptions, failed operations
WARN Deprecated API, retry attempts
INFO Business events, successful operations
DEBUG Development troubleshooting

Best Practice

// Good: Structured with context
logger.info('User action completed', {
  action: 'purchase',
  userId: user.id,
  orderId: order.id,
  duration_ms: 150
});

// Bad: String interpolation
logger.info(`User ${user.id} completed purchase`);

See templates/structured-logging.ts for Winston setup and request middleware

Metrics Collection

RED Method (Rate, Errors, Duration)

Essential metrics for any service:

  • Rate - Requests per second
  • Errors - Failed requests per second
  • Duration - Request latency distribution

Prometheus Buckets

// HTTP request latency
buckets: [0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, 1, 2, 5]

// Database query latency
buckets: [0.001, 0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, 1]

See templates/prometheus-metrics.ts for full metrics configuration

Distributed Tracing

OpenTelemetry Setup

Auto-instrument common libraries:

  • Express/HTTP
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 191 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 0f21f74dae56

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Observability & Monitoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArieGoldkin/ai-agent-hub (11 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,278 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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