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instana-observability

instana-observability is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks. It costs 65 tokens per session (7,109 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions for working with Instana, a tool that monitors applications and shows traces, errors, and performance data. It covers API clients, dashboards, monitoring integrations, and performance investigations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building TypeScript clients for Instana, creating React monitoring dashboards, analyzing service errors and slow responses, and connecting applications to monitoring.
Why use it?
It provides task-specific guidance for querying Instana correctly and handling details such as authentication, pagination, retries, and application-scoped trace searches.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

not rated 28repo changed 1mo ago A scan SkillSpector: warn 65 tokens original Apache-2.0

Good fit Building TypeScript clients for Instana, creating React monitoring dashboards, analyzing service errors and slow responses, and connecting applications to monitoring.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks/application-observability
View source ↗ ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks ibm-self-serve-assets.github.io
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 ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks --skill application-observability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,109 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 335
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 345
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00065 $0.07109
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.02844
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.01422
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00711

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 199066095457, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

instana-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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (instana-dashboard/dashboard-config-template.js), 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.

ibm-bob/skills/application-observability/SKILL.md · 616 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 616 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Application Observability with Instana

This skill covers five workflows. Identify which applies to the current task and follow that section. Supporting reference files are in the sub-folders alongside this skill.

MANDATORY — Deterministic Dashboard Rules

Read this section before any dashboard generation task.

When generating an Application Observability dashboard using this skill, IBM Bob must produce an identical UI architecture across every invocation. The following rules are absolute and override any personal judgment about alternative visualizations, layouts, or designs.

You MUST NOT:

  • Invent new dashboards, tabs, or layouts
  • Change chart types
  • Change chart titles
  • Rearrange charts or KPI cards
  • Rename tabs
  • Add or remove primary tabs
  • Replace Carbon components with another UI framework
  • Generate alternative visual themes
  • Change navigation patterns
  • Create different layouts based on personal interpretation
  • Replace required charts because another visualization seems more appropriate

You MUST:

  • Use exactly 3 primary tabs: Service Overview, Trace Details, Intelligent Analysis & Insights — in that order
  • Use exactly 5 KPI cards in the Service Overview tab: Calls / Requests, Mean Latency, P95 Latency, Error Rate, Affected Services — in that order
  • Use exactly 5 charts in the Service Overview tab in a 3-row 2-column grid layout (the 3 time-series charts — Calls Over Time, Latency Over Time, Error Rate Over Time — have been removed because this Instana instance returns too few buckets for meaningful line charts on sparse traffic)
  • Use the IBM Carbon Design System with IBM Dark Theme (g100 via <Theme theme="g100">) for all UI components
  • Use Plotly for all charts with dark-theme styled layout and coordinates
  • Retain every defined component even when telemetry is unavailable — display a standardised No data available state instead of removing the component
  • Use the centralized dashboardConfig.js to drive all layout, tab order, KPI order, chart order, and component configuration
  • Externalise all environment-specific configuration through .env

Read the full file on GitHub · 616 lines

Files

What ships with it

22 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. 1mo ago Changed · +241 lines 199066095457
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 375 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 1ee8da7829ab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

instana-observability is a skill published in the GitHub repository ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks (28 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 7,109 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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