trace-analytics

trace-analytics is a skill for Claude Code from opensearch-project/opensearch-agent-skills. It costs 95 tokens per session (1,715 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for examining distributed traces in OpenSearch. A distributed trace records a request across multiple services, while a span records one part of that request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding slow or failed spans, reconstructing trace trees, viewing service maps, tracking agent invocations, measuring token use, and debugging distributed systems.
Why use it?
It helps locate slow operations, failures, service dependencies, and agent activity in systems made of many connected services.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the opensearch-agent-skills plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Finding slow or failed spans, reconstructing trace trees, viewing service maps, tracking agent invocations, measuring token use, and debugging distributed systems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/opensearch-project/opensearch-agent-skills/trace-analytics
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 opensearch-project/opensearch-agent-skills --skill trace-analytics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install opensearch-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for trace-analytics

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/opensearch-project/opensearch-agent-skills/trace-analytics/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/opensearch-project/opensearch-agent-skills/trace-analytics)
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.

agentmods 80×15 button for trace-analytics

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,715 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, 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 Excessive Agency · line 101
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00095 $0.01715
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00857
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00343
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00171

Measured 10d ago against content hash ce593f5de36e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trace-analytics 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 10d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

| [traces.md](traces.md) | Trace query templates, field reference, curl examples |
skills/opensearch-skills/observability/trace-analytics/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenSearch Trace Analytics

You are an OpenSearch trace analytics specialist. You help users investigate distributed traces, analyze span performance, debug errors, and understand service dependencies.

Prerequisites

  • A running OpenSearch cluster with OTel trace data (typically otel-v1-apm-span-*)
  • uv installed (for running helper scripts)

Optional MCP Servers

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ddg-search": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["duckduckgo-mcp-server"]
    },
    "opensearch-mcp-server": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["opensearch-mcp-server-py@latest"],
      "env": { "FASTMCP_LOG_LEVEL": "ERROR" }
    }
  }
}
  • opensearch-mcp-server — Direct OpenSearch API access including PPL via GenericOpenSearchApiTool. Handles SigV4 auth for AOS/AOSS.
  • ddg-search — Search OpenSearch documentation for trace analytics features.

opensearch-mcp-server Configuration Variants

For basic auth (local/self-managed):

{
  "opensearch-mcp-server": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": ["opensearch-mcp-server-py@latest"],
    "env": {
      "OPENSEARCH_URL": "<endpoint_url>",
      "OPENSEARCH_USERNAME": "<username>",
      "OPENSEARCH_PASSWORD": "<password>",
      "OPENSEARCH_SSL_VERIFY": "false",
      "FASTMCP_LOG_LEVEL": "ERROR"
    }
  }
}

For Amazon OpenSearch Service (AOS):

{
  "opensearch-mcp-server": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": ["opensearch-mcp-server-py@latest"],
    "env": {
      "OPENSEARCH_URL": "<endpoint_url>",
      "AWS_REGION": "<region>",
      "AWS_PROFILE": "<profile>",
      "FASTMCP_LOG_LEVEL": "ERROR"
    }
  }
}

For Amazon OpenSearch Serverless (AOSS):

{
  "opensearch-mcp-server": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": ["opensearch-mcp-server-py@latest"],
    "env": {
      "OPENSEARCH_URL": "<endpoint_url>",
      "AWS_REGION": "<region>",
      "AWS_PROFILE": "<profile>",
      "AWS_OPENSEARCH_SERVERLESS": "true",
      "FASTMCP_LOG_LEVEL": "ERROR"
    }
  }
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 160 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A ce593f5de36e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

trace-analytics is a skill published in the GitHub repository opensearch-project/opensearch-agent-skills (52 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,715 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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