observability-testing-patterns

observability-testing-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from summarybotng/summarybot-ng. It costs 47 tokens per session (7,973 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of patterns for checking monitoring systems: dashboards, alerts, logs, application traces, metrics, and service-level targets. Observability means being able to understand a running system from its collected signals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Verifying dashboard data, testing alerts, checking log completeness, tracing requests across services, measuring dashboard performance, and confirming SLA or SLO compliance.
Why use it?
It catches misleading dashboards, missing logs, broken traces, incorrect alert thresholds, and unreliable metrics before they delay incident response.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/summarybotng/summarybot-ng/observability-testing-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add summarybotng/summarybot-ng --skill observability-testing-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/summarybotng/summarybot-ng

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,973 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00047 $0.07973
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.03986
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01595
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00797

Measured today against content hash 45fb1502149c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observability-testing-patterns 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 today.

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.

.claude/skills/observability-testing-patterns/SKILL.md · 931 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 931 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Observability Testing Patterns

<default_to_action> When testing observability infrastructure, dashboards, or monitoring:

  1. VALIDATE data accuracy (source data matches what the dashboard displays)
  2. TEST alert rules fire correctly at defined thresholds
  3. VERIFY log aggregation completeness (no missing logs across services)
  4. TRACE distributed requests end-to-end through APM
  5. MEASURE dashboard performance (render time, query latency)
  6. CONFIRM SLA/SLO compliance through synthetic monitoring
  7. TEST metric pipeline integrity from collection to display

Quick Pattern Selection:

  • Dashboard shows wrong numbers -> Data accuracy validation
  • Alerts not firing -> Alert rule threshold testing
  • Missing logs in Kibana -> Log aggregation completeness
  • Slow dashboard -> Dashboard performance testing
  • Broken traces -> APM trace validation
  • SLA disputes -> SLO compliance validation

Critical Success Factors:

  • Observability is only as good as the data it shows
  • A dashboard that lies is worse than no dashboard
  • Alert fatigue kills response times; test thresholds carefully </default_to_action>

Quick Reference Card

When to Use

  • Validating dashboard data accuracy (Kibana, Grafana, Datadog)
  • Testing alert rule thresholds and notification delivery
  • Verifying log aggregation completeness across microservices
  • Validating distributed tracing (APM) correctness
  • Measuring SLA/SLO compliance
  • Testing metric pipeline integrity (collection -> aggregation -> display)

Testing Levels

Level Purpose Dependencies Speed
Query Validation Elasticsearch/PromQL query accuracy Data source Fast
Dashboard Accuracy Visual matches source data Full stack Medium
Alert Threshold Trigger and notification testing Alerting stack Medium
Pipeline Integrity End-to-end metric flow Full pipeline Slower
Performance Dashboard render time, query latency Full stack Slower

Critical Test Scenarios

Scenario Must Test Example
Data Accuracy Dashboard = source truth Order count on dashboard = DB count
Alert Firing Threshold triggers alert Error rate > 5% fires PagerDuty
Alert Recovery Auto-resolve when recovered Error rate drops below 5% clears alert
Log Completeness All services emit logs 10 microservices, all logs in Kibana
Trace Integrity Full request path visible Auth -> API -> DB -> Cache spans
SLO Compliance Error budget tracking 99.9% availability over 30 days
Time Accuracy Timestamps aligned Log timestamp matches event time

Read the full file on GitHub · 931 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. today First seen · 931 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 45fb1502149c

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observability-testing-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository summarybotng/summarybot-ng (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 7,973 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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