observability

observability is a skill for Claude Code from TheBeardedBearSAS/claude-craft. It costs 36 tokens per session (609 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to monitoring software with metrics, distributed traces, and structured logs. It covers tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, and Datadog.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add instrumentation, trace requests across services, structure logs, and monitor application health.
Why use it?
It helps teams find the cause of production problems by showing request performance, errors, traffic, and resource use across services.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: context: fork in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-craft plugin — 56 skills, 94 commands, 47 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to add instrumentation, trace requests across services, structure logs, and monitor application health.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thebeardedbearsas/claude-craft/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 TheBeardedBearSAS/claude-craft --skill observability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheBeardedBearSAS/claude-craft

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-craft, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills, 94 commands, 47 agents, 5 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for observability

README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 609 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 $0.00036 $0.00609
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00304
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00061

Measured 4d ago against content hash b140584d2d77, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 4d 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.

.claude/skills/observability/SKILL.md · 69 lines

What it actually says

Observability — OpenTelemetry & Distributed Tracing

Instrumentation moderne avec OpenTelemetry pour métriques, traces et logs structurés.

Piliers de l'Observabilité

Pilier Technologies Métriques clés
Metrics Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog RED (Rate, Errors, Duration), USE (Utilization, Saturation, Errors)
Traces OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Tempo P95 latency, span duration, error rate
Logs Loki, ElasticSearch, Datadog Structured JSON, correlation IDs

OpenTelemetry (OTel) Stack

// Node.js — Auto-instrumentation
const { NodeSDK } = require('@opentelemetry/sdk-node');
const { getNodeAutoInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node');

const sdk = new NodeSDK({
  traceExporter: new OTLPTraceExporter(),
  instrumentations: [getNodeAutoInstrumentations()],
});

sdk.start();

Golden Signals (Google SRE)

Signal Description Seuil typique
Latency P50, P95, P99 response time P95 < 200ms
Traffic Requests per second Baseline + alerting
Errors Error rate (5xx, exceptions) < 0.1%
Saturation CPU, Memory, Disk < 80% sustained

Structured Logging (JSON)

{
  "timestamp": "2026-04-17T10:30:00Z",
  "level": "error",
  "message": "Payment processing failed",
  "trace_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736",
  "span_id": "00f067aa0ba902b7",
  "service.name": "payment-api",
  "error.type": "PaymentGatewayTimeout"
}

SLI / SLO / SLA

Concept Exemple
SLI (Indicator) 99.5% requests < 200ms
SLO (Objective) 99.9% uptime mensuel
SLA (Agreement) 99.95% uptime + pénalités

Pour instrumentation détaillée par stack : invoquer @observability-engineer

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. 4d ago First seen · 69 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A b140584d2d77

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observability is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheBeardedBearSAS/claude-craft (105 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 609 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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