investigating-logs

investigating-logs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PostHog/posthog-foss. It costs 137 tokens per session (1,877 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An investigation guide for understanding application and service logs in a PostHog project. It starts by grouping repeated messages and comparing time periods before examining individual log entries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check service health, investigate incidents, compare logs before and after a change, and find evidence for errors reported elsewhere.
Why use it?
It reduces a noisy log stream to the patterns and changes most likely to explain a failure, error spike, or deployment problem. Logs are records of what a service did while running.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to check service health, investigate incidents, compare logs before and after a change, and find evidence for errors reported elsewhere.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/posthog/posthog-foss/investigating-logs
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 PostHog/posthog-foss --skill investigating-logs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-foss

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 137 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,877 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: 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 Prompt Injection · line 36
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
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 $0.00137 $0.01877
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.00938
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00375
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00188

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0efd1d73b0ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

investigating-logs 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 9d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

products/logs/skills/investigating-logs/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Investigating logs

Investigation is a narrowing problem: summarize before you read. One posthog:logs-patterns call compresses millions of lines into at most 200 templates, and one posthog:logs-patterns-diff call answers "what is different about now vs. before" directly. Raw rows (posthog:query-logs) are the last step of an investigation, never the first.

When to use this skill

  • "Check the logs" / "is service X healthy?" / "did my deploy (or model bump, config change, migration) break anything?"
  • "Why are errors up?" / "explain this spike" / incident triage — "what changed?"
  • "What is this service logging?" — orienting in an unfamiliar or noisy stream.
  • Finding the log evidence for a failure reported elsewhere (an alert, an error-tracking issue, a user complaint).

When not to use this skill

  • Creating or tuning log alerts — that's authoring-log-alerts.
  • Analytics over product events, persons, or insights — that's querying-posthog-data.
  • HogQL exposes a logs table via posthog:execute-sql, but do not investigate through it: hand-written SQL over logs routinely hits read-byte caps and re-derives what the tools below do in one cheap call. Reserve SQL for the rare case of joining log-derived facts with non-log data.

Tools

Tool Job
posthog:logs-services-create Top-25 services with log_count, error_count, error_rate, sparkline. Orientation.
posthog:logs-patterns Mine one window's message templates, ordered by frequency. "What is this stream saying?"
posthog:logs-patterns-diff Diff templates between two windows: new / rate-shifted / gone. "What changed?"
posthog:logs-count / posthog:logs-count-ranges Scalar and time-bucketed counts for a filter. Localize volume before pulling rows.
posthog:logs-sparkline-query Volume over time broken down by severity or service (the one bucketed view with a breakdown).
posthog:logs-facet-values-create Distribution of severity/service (or a resource attribute) under a filter.
posthog:logs-attributes-list / posthog:logs-attribute-values-list Discover attribute keys and values before building filters.
posthog:query-logs Raw rows. Endpoint of every drill-down, entry point of none.

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 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. 9d ago First seen · 123 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A 0efd1d73b0ca

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investigating-logs is a skill published in the GitHub repository PostHog/posthog-foss (715 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 1,877 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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