signoz-setting-up-observability

signoz-setting-up-observability is a skill for Claude Code from SigNoz/agent-skills. It costs 224 tokens per session (5,952 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for setting up monitoring in SigNoz after a service is already sending telemetry. It covers service targets, dashboards, saved views, alerts, and later tuning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define service indicators and objectives, explore logs, traces, and metrics, create dashboards and alerts, save useful views, and tune the setup over time.
Why use it?
It turns incoming monitoring data into a practical view of service health and a process for detecting problems against defined reliability targets.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the signoz plugin — 13 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to define service indicators and objectives, explore logs, traces, and metrics, create dashboards and alerts, save useful views, and tune the setup over time.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/signoz/agent-skills/signoz-setting-up-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 SigNoz/agent-skills --skill signoz-setting-up-observability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SigNoz/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install signoz, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 2 hooks.

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Per session 224 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,952 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 $0.00224 $0.05952
Opus 5 $0.00112 $0.02976
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.01190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00595

Measured 7d ago against content hash 864c9f91a464, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

signoz-setting-up-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 7d 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.

plugins/signoz/skills/signoz-setting-up-observability/SKILL.md · 456 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 456 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setting Up Observability After Ingestion

Take a service from "telemetry is flowing into SigNoz" to "I have a dashboard, alerts, saved views, and a tuning loop." This skill is an orchestration layer, not a standalone reference: the mechanical work lives in the sibling SigNoz skills and the MCP tools/resources hold the current payload schemas. This skill sequences them and supplies the judgment calls (scope, SLOs, thresholds, what to skip) that no single skill owns; it deliberately does not restate payload schemas or field rules, so read the relevant signoz://… resource before composing any payload.

Use this when traces, logs, or metrics are already landing in SigNoz and you want an opinionated, SLO-aware setup, not when you're still wiring up the SDK. Audience: two consumers, an autonomous AI SRE agent that runs without a human in the loop (e.g. an in-product SigNoz assistant), and an engineer at a Claude Code / Codex / Cursor prompt. Both follow the same flow; where a step needs a human decision (Phase 1 triage, Phase 5 sign-off), the host decides how to surface it, and an autonomous host fills the gap from upstream context instead of blocking.

Prerequisites

This skill calls SigNoz MCP server tools (signoz_list_services, signoz_list_dashboards, signoz_get_field_keys, signoz_execute_builder_query, signoz_create_dashboard, signoz_create_alert, signoz_create_view, etc.) and delegates to sibling skills. Before running the workflow, confirm the signoz_* tools are available. If they are not, the SigNoz MCP server is not installed or configured; run signoz-mcp-setup first. Do not fall back to raw HTTP calls or fabricate payloads.

When to use

Use this skill when the user wants the whole post-ingestion setup: SLI/SLO → exploration → dashboard → views → alerts → tuning, in any combination of those deliverables, sequenced as one workflow.

Do NOT use this skill when the user wants a single artifact; hand off directly:

  • Just a dashboard → signoz-creating-dashboards.
  • Just one static / threshold alert or notification rule → signoz-creating-alerts. (But SLO / burn-rate / error-budget alerting, even with no dashboard, stays here: it needs the SLI/SLO capture and burn-rate judgment in the phases below.)
  • Just a saved Explorer view → signoz-managing-views.
  • A one-off exploratory query → signoz-generating-queries.
  • A concept/doc lookup (SRE methods, OTel conventions, burn-rate math) → signoz-searching-docs / signoz_search_docs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 456 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. 7d ago Changed 864c9f91a464
  2. 11d ago First seen · 456 lines · 224 tokens per session scan A 7761c62bb4be

Subscribe to this mod's changes

signoz-setting-up-observability is a skill published in the GitHub repository SigNoz/agent-skills (16 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 224 tokens to every session and 5,952 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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