monitoring-observability

monitoring-observability is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (481 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to observing running software through metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts. It explains tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, and Jaeger, including what each type of data reveals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design monitoring systems, collect application metrics and logs, trace requests across services, build dashboards, and configure alerts.
Why use it?
It helps teams understand slow requests, failures, and resource pressure instead of guessing from isolated symptoms. Centralized data and alerts make it easier to detect and investigate incidents.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to design monitoring systems, collect application metrics and logs, trace requests across services, build dashboards, and configure alerts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/monitoring-observability
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 cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill monitoring-observability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 481 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00029 $0.00481
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00241
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00048

Measured 8d ago against content hash 94a81f8cdb80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

monitoring-observability 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 8d 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.

categories/devops/monitoring-observability/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

Monitoring & Observability

Build comprehensive observability for your systems.

The Three Pillars

1. Metrics (Prometheus)

# Instrument your app
http_requests_total{method="GET", endpoint="/api/users", status="200"} 1024
http_request_duration_seconds{quantile="0.95"} 0.235

2. Logging (Loki / ELK)

  • Structured JSON logging
  • Include: timestamp, level, service, trace_id, message
  • Centralized log aggregation
  • Log levels: DEBUG < INFO < WARN < ERROR < FATAL

3. Tracing (Jaeger / Tempo)

  • Trace every request across services
  • Span: individual operation with timing
  • Distributed context propagation via trace ID headers
  • Sample 1-10% of production traffic

Alerting (Alertmanager)

Alert Severity

Severity Response Time Channel
Critical Immediately PagerDuty + SMS
Warning 1 hour Slack + Email
Info Next day Dashboard

Golden Signals (Google SRE)

  1. Latency: Time to respond
  2. Traffic: Requests per second
  3. Errors: Error rate (5xx, exceptions)
  4. Saturation: Resource utilization

Dashboard Design (Grafana)

Rules

  • 3-5 panels per row
  • Time series with trend lines, not raw numbers
  • RED metrics: Rate, Errors, Duration per service
  • USE metrics: Utilization, Saturation, Errors per resource
  • Include annotations for deployments, incidents

Best Practices

  • Monitor from outside (synthetic checks)
  • Monitor everything, alert on what matters
  • Use SLOs to define what's "good enough"
  • Test alerts (fire drills, tabletop exercises)
  • Review dashboards monthly with the team
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. 8d ago First seen · 66 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 94a81f8cdb80

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monitoring-observability is a skill published in the GitHub repository cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills (470 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 481 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 2026-09-03.

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