observability

observability is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,302 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to observability, the practice of collecting logs, metrics, and traces so engineers can understand what a running system is doing. It also covers service goals and useful alerts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to instrument services, add structured logs and distributed tracing, define SLOs, and create symptom-based alerts.
Why use it?
It helps answer why a system is failing instead of only showing that something is wrong, while reducing alerts that people learn to ignore.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to instrument services, add structured logs and distributed tracing, define SLOs, and create symptom-based alerts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nimadorostkar/claude-skills-collection/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 nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection --skill observability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,302 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 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 $0.00042 $0.01302
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00651
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00130

Measured 8d ago against content hash a3a2d5ebd00d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 8d 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/devops/observability/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Observability

Purpose

Instrument a system so that a question you did not anticipate can still be answered from its telemetry. Monitoring tells you that something is wrong; observability lets you find out why without shipping new code.

When to Use

  • Instrumenting a new service.
  • An incident where the data needed to diagnose it did not exist.
  • Defining SLOs and the alerts that derive from them.
  • Reducing alert noise that the team has learned to ignore.

Capabilities

  • Structured logging with consistent, queryable fields.
  • Metrics: RED (rate, errors, duration) for services, USE (utilization, saturation, errors) for resources.
  • Distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry and context propagation.
  • SLO and error-budget definition.
  • Alert design: symptom-based, actionable, and rare.

Inputs

  • The service, its dependencies, and its user-facing operations.
  • The questions you have needed to answer in past incidents.
  • Existing telemetry and its gaps.

Outputs

  • Structured logs with a trace ID on every line.
  • RED metrics per endpoint and USE metrics per resource.
  • SLOs with error budgets, and alerts that fire on symptoms.

Workflow

  1. Instrument the user-visible path first — Rate, errors, and duration per endpoint. This answers "is it broken and for whom", which is the first question in every incident.
  2. Log structurally — JSON with consistent field names, including a trace ID. A log line that must be parsed with a regex is a log line nobody will query at 3am.
  3. Propagate context — OpenTelemetry, with the trace ID flowing through every hop, including the message queue. A trace that stops at a queue boundary is half a trace.
  4. Define SLOs from the user's perspective — "99.9% of checkout requests succeed within 500ms." Not "CPU stays below 80%", which no user has ever cared about.
  5. Alert on symptoms, not causes — Page on "error budget burning fast", not on "CPU high". High CPU with a healthy service is not an incident.
  6. Delete the alerts nobody acts on — An alert that has fired forty times and been acknowledged forty times without action is training the team to ignore alerts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 8d ago First seen · 109 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A a3a2d5ebd00d

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observability is a skill published in the GitHub repository nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection (26 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,302 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 2026-09-03.

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