monitoring-and-alerting

monitoring-and-alerting is a skill for Claude Code from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 99 tokens per session (2,426 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to watching websites and services for outages, errors, and other problems, then deciding who should be notified. It also covers SLOs, which are agreed service targets such as uptime or response time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up uptime and error monitoring, define service targets, choose alert rules, plan on-call coverage, and find gaps after an incident.
Why use it?
It helps teams find failures earlier and avoid noisy alerts that make important warnings easy to miss. It also clarifies who responds when something breaks.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the rampstack-skills plugin — 103 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to set up uptime and error monitoring, define service targets, choose alert rules, plan on-call coverage, and find gaps after an incident.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rampstackco/claude-skills/monitoring-and-alerting
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 rampstackco/claude-skills --skill monitoring-and-alerting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rampstack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 103 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,426 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 $0.00099 $0.02426
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01213
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00485
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00243

Measured 6d ago against content hash 7f9226b4e701, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

monitoring-and-alerting 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 6d 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/monitoring-and-alerting/SKILL.md · 263 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 263 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Monitoring and Alerting

Decide what to watch, what to alert on, and how to make sure the right person finds out when things break.


When to use

  • Setting up monitoring on a new site or service
  • Defining SLOs (service level objectives) and error budgets
  • Choosing which alerts page someone vs which go to a quiet channel
  • Designing or fixing on-call rotation
  • Diagnosing alert fatigue
  • Filling monitoring gaps revealed by an incident
  • Migrating monitoring vendors

When NOT to use

  • Responding to an active incident (use incident-response)
  • Writing the post-mortem (use after-action-report)
  • Designing analytics dashboards for product metrics (use analytics-strategy)
  • Performance optimization itself (use performance-optimization)

Required inputs

  • The system you're monitoring (URLs, services, dependencies)
  • Existing monitoring tools (uptime, errors, logs, APM)
  • Business hours and team timezone(s)
  • Who is on-call or available for incidents
  • Existing SLOs or success metrics, if any

The framework: 4 layers

Monitoring works in layers. Skip a layer and you'll miss a class of problems.

Layer 1: Availability

Is the site up? The simplest, most important layer.

  • HTTP checks from multiple regions (every 1-5 minutes)
  • DNS resolution checks
  • Certificate expiration checks
  • Status code checks (alert on 5xx, not just timeout)

Threshold: any sustained downtime (more than 2 consecutive failed checks) pages.

Layer 2: Correctness

The site is up, but is it serving the right thing?

  • Synthetic checks (a script that loads the homepage, clicks a button, validates expected text)
  • Critical user journeys (signup, checkout, search)
  • Content presence checks (homepage hasn't gone blank)
  • API contract checks (response shape and key fields are present)

Threshold: failures of critical-path synthetics page. Non-critical page-level synthetics alert during business hours only.

Layer 3: Performance

The site is up and correct, but is it fast enough?

Read the full file on GitHub · 263 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. 6d ago First seen · 263 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 7f9226b4e701

Subscribe to this mod's changes

monitoring-and-alerting is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (832 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 2,426 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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