kube-agents-observability

kube-agents-observability is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gke-labs/kube-agents. It costs 31 tokens per session (2,225 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for checking an agent platform's logs, metrics, traces, and dashboards. These are records, measurements, and request paths used to understand whether a running system is working correctly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect agent containers, Fluent Bit log collection, configuration maps, and other observability components in Kubernetes.
Why use it?
It helps locate missing logs, broken log collection, unavailable metrics, tracing problems, and dashboard or API issues.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to inspect agent containers, Fluent Bit log collection, configuration maps, and other observability components in Kubernetes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gke-labs/kube-agents/kube-agents-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 gke-labs/kube-agents --skill kube-agents-observability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gke-labs/kube-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,225 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00031 $0.02225
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01112
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00445
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00222

Measured yesterday against content hash 0cede5ad755b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kube-agents-observability scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/analyze_trace_latency.py, scripts/check_token_usage.py, scripts/fetch_traces.py, …), 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

sh -c 'curl -i -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" -X POST "$OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT/v1/traces"'
agents/platform/skills/kube-agents-observability/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.

Task

Audit, verify, and troubleshoot the logging, metrics, and distributed tracing observability of the Platform Agent.

[!TIP] The provided Python scripts in the scripts/ subdirectory are parameterized reference implementations. When troubleshooting, you can run them directly, customize their parameters, or write custom just-in-time scripts/commands to query more specific metrics, endpoints, or time ranges as required by the task context.

Workflow

Logging

1. Audit Agent Main Logs

  • Verify that the main agent container is writing logs to /opt/data/logs/*.log.
  • View the internal agent log files directly:
    kubectl exec <pod-name> -c <agent-container-name> -n kubeagents-system -- tail -n 100 /opt/data/logs/agent.log
    

2. Inspect Sidecar Log Aggregator (Fluent-bit)

  • Verify the fluent-bit sidecar container tails the log directory and streams to standard output:
    kubectl logs <pod-name> -c fluent-bit -n kubeagents-system --tail=100
    
  • Retrieve and verify the configuration of the Fluent-bit sidecar:
    kubectl get configmap <agent-name>-fluent-bit-config -n kubeagents-system -o yaml
    
  • Ensure the shared /opt/data volume is mounted to both the agent and Fluent-bit containers:
    kubectl get pod <pod-name> -n kubeagents-system -o jsonpath='{.spec.containers[*].volumeMounts}'
    

3. Identify Active Chat Users (Auditing Interactions)

To determine which users have interacted with the system via Google Chat in the last 24 hours (or a custom window):

  • Run the packaged Python helper script to automatically query and parse the GKE container logs from Google Cloud Logging:

    python3 ./scripts/get_chat_users.py --project-id <PROJECT_ID> [--hours <HOURS>]
    
    
  • Alternatively, search Cloud Logging manually (via console or gcloud CLI) for the custom GChat event format emitted by the hermes session store:

    gcloud logging read 'resource.type="k8s_container" "Logging incoming GChat event"' --project=<PROJECT_ID> --limit=1000 --format="json"
    

    Look for log lines containing the format: Logging incoming GChat event: User=<email>, Session=<session_id>.

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. yesterday Changed 0cede5ad755b
  2. 9d ago First seen · 191 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A f3c65fd22c17

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kube-agents-observability is a skill published in the GitHub repository gke-labs/kube-agents (54 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 2,225 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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