What is aws-observability?

A guide to AWS observability, which means collecting and examining logs, measurements, traces, alarms, and application health signals. It distinguishes standard CloudWatch from CloudWatch Omni, a separate service with different data and query models.

Use it to configure or troubleshoot logs, metrics, traces, alarms, Log Insights, application monitoring, and CloudWatch Omni queries.

It helps identify which CloudWatch product and control plane a monitoring problem belongs to. This prevents using the wrong command, query language, or alerting model.

aws-observability — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by jkomyno

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 jkomyno/.dotfiles --skill aws-observability

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jkomyno/.dotfiles

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 221 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 6,701 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00221	$0.06701
Opus 5.5	$0.00088	$0.02680
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00044	$0.01340
Haiku 4.5	$0.00022	$0.00670

Measured 16d ago against content hash b3b5a49f8c8f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-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 16d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 19 executable files (assets/cloudwatch/alarm-template.ts, scripts/cloudwatch-omni/capture_dataset_from_traces.py, scripts/cloudwatch-omni/evaluate_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.

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.

target/home/.agents/skills/aws-observability/SKILL.md · 303 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 303 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS Observability

Overview

Domain expertise for AWS observability across metrics, logs, and traces, for two products that share the CloudWatch name but are separate services with separate control planes, data models, and APIs:

	CloudWatch	CloudWatch Omni
What it is	Log groups, metric namespaces, alarms, Log Insights, X-Ray, Application Signals	Application Observability / Agent Observability. A Space per account per Region is the access boundary over the account's CloudWatch Dataset (OpenTelemetry logs, traces, and metrics); the Dataset is a CloudWatch resource the Space reads, not something the Space contains
Control plane	`aws cloudwatch`, `aws logs`, `aws xray`, `aws application-signals`	`aws cloudwatchomni` (endpoint prefix `cloudwatch-omni`, signing name `cloudwatch`)
Query	Log Insights query language; GetMetricData	SQL over `logs.default` / `traces.default`; PromQL over metrics; named views
Notify	Alarms (metric, composite, anomaly)	Alerts (SQL/PromQL rule, contributors, OK/WARNING/CRITICAL/NODATA)
Topology	Application Signals service map	Context graph (GetContextGraph)
Access	IAM only	Domain → Space → access grants and access profiles (set up in `setting-up-cloudwatch-observability`)
Only here	Dynamic Instrumentation, Synthetics canaries, CloudTrail auditing, EMF	Agent-quality evaluation, views, context graph
References	`references/cloudwatch/`	`references/cloudwatch-omni/`

Enabling Omni does not replace CloudWatch; log groups, metrics, and alarms keep working, and most customers use both.

Works best with the AWS MCP server — enables running CLI commands, querying CloudWatch, and validating configurations directly. All guidance also works with standard AWS CLI access.

Note: Reference files contain specific runtime versions, quota values, and feature matrices that may change. When precision matters (e.g. deploying to production, choosing a runtime, or checking a quota), confirm values against current AWS documentation rather than relying solely on the values in these files.

Read the full file on GitHub · 303 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 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.

16d ago First seen · 303 lines · 221 tokens per session scan A b3b5a49f8c8f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aws-observability is a skill published in the GitHub repository jkomyno/.dotfiles (5 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 221 tokens to every session and 6,701 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-10-22.

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