observability

observability is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from eaescob/resiliency_skills. It costs 97 tokens per session (1,079 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for adding application monitoring through traces, metrics, and production performance data. It supports OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic, and Dynatrace for frameworks including Next.js, Express, React, and Go.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add HTTP and database tracing, custom business-operation spans, metrics, exporters, and monitoring setup.
Why use it?
It helps you see how requests move through an application and identify problems in production.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/eaescob/resiliency_skills/observability
Any agent
npx skills add eaescob/resiliency_skills --skill observability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eaescob/resiliency_skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for observability

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/eaescob/resiliency_skills/observability.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/eaescob/resiliency_skills/observability)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/eaescob/resiliency_skills/observability"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/eaescob/resiliency_skills/observability.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,079 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 5.1 $0.00097 $0.01079
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00540
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00108

Measured 6d ago against content hash 3b879c8b5313, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 6d 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.

skills/observability/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Observability

Instrument applications with distributed tracing, metrics, and spans for production monitoring.

Provider Selection

Prompt user to select observability provider:

Provider Best For Pricing Model
OpenTelemetry Vendor-neutral, self-hosted backends Free (depends on backend)
Datadog Full-stack observability, enterprise Per host + ingestion
New Relic Developer-friendly, generous free tier Per user + data
Dynatrace AI-powered, large enterprises Per host

Default recommendation: OpenTelemetry for flexibility, Datadog for enterprise environments.

Workflow

  1. Detect or confirm framework - Ask if unclear
  2. Select observability provider - Prompt user
  3. Install SDK and dependencies - Provider + framework specific
  4. Configure instrumentation - Auto-instrumentation where possible
  5. Add custom spans - For business-critical operations
  6. Set up metrics - Custom metrics for KPIs
  7. Configure exporters - Send data to backend

Instrumentation Checklist

Every instrumented application should have:

  • Automatic HTTP tracing - Incoming and outgoing requests
  • Database query tracing - SQL/NoSQL operations with timing
  • Error tracking - Exceptions with stack traces
  • Custom spans - Business logic operations
  • Resource attributes - Service name, version, environment
  • Metrics - Request rate, latency percentiles, error rate
  • Correlation IDs - Trace context propagation

Provider References

OpenTelemetry (Recommended)

See references/providers/otel.md for:

  • SDK setup for each framework
  • Auto-instrumentation configuration
  • Custom spans and metrics
  • Exporter configuration (Jaeger, Zipkin, OTLP)

Datadog

See references/providers/datadog.md for:

  • dd-trace SDK setup
  • APM configuration
  • Custom metrics and traces
  • Log correlation

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 6d ago First seen · 156 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 3b879c8b5313

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observability is a skill published in the GitHub repository eaescob/resiliency_skills (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,079 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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