dt-mcp-server: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/dt-obs-tracing/SKILL.md

dt-obs-tracing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from israel-salgado/dt-mcp-server. It costs 35 tokens per session (4,443 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Dynatrace tracing helper for examining distributed traces, which record how one request moves through multiple services. It works with spans, the individual operations within a trace.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to query request flows, inspect individual spans, study service dependencies, analyze performance, and investigate failures.
Why use it?
It helps show where a request is slow or failing when the work is spread across services, databases, messaging systems, or internal functions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is israel-salgado/dt-mcp-server's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on dt-mcp-server itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything dt-mcp-server configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to israel-salgado/dt-mcp-server. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
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Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,443 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.
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 $0.00035 $0.04443
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.02221
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00889
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00444

Measured 11d ago against content hash 38503936419a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dt-obs-tracing 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 11d 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.

.agents/skills/dt-obs-tracing/SKILL.md · 641 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 641 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Application Tracing Skill

Overview

Distributed traces in Dynatrace consist of spans - building blocks representing units of work. With Traces in Grail, every span is accessible via DQL with full-text searchability on all attributes. This skill covers trace fundamentals, common analysis patterns, and span-type specific queries.

Core Concepts

Understanding Traces and Spans

Spans represent logical units of work in distributed traces:

  • HTTP requests, RPC calls, database operations
  • Messaging system interactions
  • Internal function invocations
  • Custom instrumentation points

Span kinds:

  • span.kind: server - Incoming call to a service
  • span.kind: client - Outgoing call from a service
  • span.kind: consumer - Incoming message consumption call to a service
  • span.kind: producer - Outgoing message production call from a service
  • span.kind: internal - Internal operation within a service

Root spans: A request root span (request.is_root_span == true) represents an incoming call to a service. Use this to analyze end-to-end request performance.

Key Trace Attributes

Essential attributes for trace analysis:

Attribute Description
trace.id Unique trace identifier
span.id Unique span identifier
span.parent_id Parent span ID (null for root spans)
request.is_root_span Boolean, true for request entry points
request.is_failed Boolean, true if request failed
duration Span duration in nanoseconds
span.timing.cpu Overall CPU time of the span (stable)
span.timing.cpu_self CPU time excluding child spans (stable)
dt.smartscape.service Service Smartscape node ID
dt.service.name Dynatrace service name derived from service detection rules. It is equal to the Smartscape service node name.
endpoint.name Endpoint/route name

Service Context

Spans reference services via Smartscape node IDs and the detected service name dt.service.name which is also present on every span.

Read the full file on GitHub · 641 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. 11d ago First seen · 641 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 38503936419a

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dt-obs-tracing is a skill published in the GitHub repository israel-salgado/dt-mcp-server (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 4,443 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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