find-top-resource-consumers

find-top-resource-consumers is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from prometheus/prometheus-mcp. It costs 58 tokens per session (494 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for finding which services, pods, or servers use the most CPU, memory, or disk, and which ones create the most monitoring data. It works with Prometheus, a system that collects time-based measurements from software and servers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for capacity reviews, investigating resource-heavy jobs or pods, ranking top resource users, and finding targets that generate unusually large amounts of monitoring data.
Why use it?
It helps answer “what is using the most resources?” when metric names differ between environments. It also helps identify workloads that increase monitoring storage or create noisy neighbors.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for capacity reviews, investigating resource-heavy jobs or pods, ranking top resource users, and finding targets that generate unusually large amounts of monitoring data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/prometheus/prometheus-mcp/find-top-resource-consumers
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 prometheus/prometheus-mcp --skill find-top-resource-consumers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 494 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 $0.00058 $0.00494
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00247
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00049

Measured 10d ago against content hash a5576e28700f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

find-top-resource-consumers 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 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.

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.

pkg/mcp/assets/skills/find-top-resource-consumers/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Finding Top Resource Consumers

Identify which services, pods, or instances consume the most CPU, memory, or disk -- or drive the most TSDB growth. Resource metrics vary by environment (node_exporter, cadvisor, kubelet, ...), so discover what exists before querying.

Getting oriented

  • label_values on name (or series with regex matchers) reveals which resource metrics exist: node_cpu_seconds_total, container_memory_working_set_bytes, process_resident_memory_bytes, and so on.
  • metric_metadata confirms the type and meaning of whatever discovery turns up.
  • tsdb_stats answers the "who produces the most metrics" version of the question via seriesCountByMetricName.
  • Prometheus's own metrics exposes monitoring cost per target: query topk(10, scrape_samples_scraped) to find the heaviest targets, and a persistently high scrape_series_added means a target keeps minting new series.

Topics worth exploring

Treat these as starting points, adapting metric names to what discovery found:

  • Top CPU: CPU counters need rate() before ranking, e.g. with query: topk(10, sum by (pod) (rate(container_cpu_usage_seconds_total[5m])))
  • Top memory: gauges rank directly: topk(10, sum by (instance) (container_memory_working_set_bytes))
  • Top disk: node_filesystem_avail_bytes vs node_filesystem_size_bytes for fullness; rate(node_disk_written_bytes_total[5m]) for write churn.
  • Trend vs snapshot: range_query the same expressions to see whether a top consumer is growing, cyclic, or stable; a stable hog and a leak need different responses.
  • TSDB growth: the top metric and label names from tsdb_stats show what is inflating storage, often more actionable than any single consumer.

Reporting findings

Rank the top consumers with numbers and units, note whether each is growing or stable, and flag anything disproportionate to its peers as a candidate for follow-up.

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 · 34 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A a5576e28700f

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find-top-resource-consumers is a skill published in the GitHub repository prometheus/prometheus-mcp (100 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 494 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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