external-logging

A set of instructions for sending an organisation's workload logs to outside services such as Amazon S3, CloudWatch, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry. Workload logs are records produced by running applications and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps configure external log export, check provider credentials, and understand organisation-wide log retention and forwarding.
Why use it?
It explains how to centralise logs outside the built-in log system and highlights the secret types and limits needed for forwarding to work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/controlplane-com/ai-plugin/external-logging
Any agent
npx skills add controlplane-com/ai-plugin --skill external-logging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/controlplane-com/ai-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,715 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 $0.00056 $0.02715
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01358
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00543
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00271

Measured 2d ago against content hash 955b3a127efc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

external-logging 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.

plugins/cpln/skills/external-logging/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

External Logging

Tool availability: some MCP tools named here live in the full toolset profile — if one is not advertised on this connection, tell the user to reconnect the MCP server with ?toolsets=full (or use the cpln CLI fallback). Reads work on every profile via the generic list_resources / get_resource tools; delete_resource is on every profile except readonly.

External logging lives on the org (spec.logging plus spec.extraLogging) and ships every workload log in the org — there is no per-GVC or per-workload filtering. One primary provider plus up to 3 extras (4 total); each logging block holds exactly one provider key. Logs stay queryable in built-in LogQL regardless (separate org retention, spec.observability.logsRetentionDays, default 30 days). The recurring failure is credentials: each provider needs a pre-created secret of the exact type below — a wrong-type secret passes configuration and the log router then silently skips that provider, so logs simply never arrive.

Providers

Key Secret Required fields Worth knowing
s3 aws bucket, region, credentials prefix default /; region free-form; the IAM user needs s3:PutObject on the bucket
cloudWatch aws region, credentials, groupName, streamName region is an 18-region allowlist (below); optional retentionDays enum and extractFields map
coralogix opaque cluster, credentials cluster: coralogix.com, coralogix.us, app.coralogix.in, app.eu2.coralogix.com, or app.coralogixsg.com; optional app/subsystem
datadog opaque host, credentials host enum: http-intake.logs.datadoghq.com, http-intake.logs.us3.datadoghq.com, http-intake.logs.us5.datadoghq.com, http-intake.logs.datadoghq.eu (dashboard us3.datadoghq.com pairs with the us3 intake host)
logzio opaque listenerHost, credentials listenerHost: listener.logz.io or listener-nl.logz.io
stackdriver gcp location, credentials location is a 40-region GCP allowlist (a rejection lists it); the service account needs Logging write
elastic aws or userpass one variant block — see below
fluentd none host port default 24224; Fluent Bit forward protocol
syslog none host, port, mode, format, severity mode tcp/udp/tls (tls enables TLS); format rfc3164/rfc5424; severity 0-7; the receiver sees gvc as hostname, workload as appname, replica as procid
opentelemetry opaque (optional) endpoint OTLP over HTTP, not gRPC; an https endpoint turns TLS on; optional credentials becomes the Authorization header. Raw header values are intentionally not accepted by the MCP tool.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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 · 131 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 955b3a127efc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

external-logging is a skill published in the GitHub repository controlplane-com/ai-plugin (10 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 2,715 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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