What is azure-observability?

Guidance for monitoring Azure applications and services. It covers measurements, logs, alerts, performance tracing, queries, and interactive reports.

Use it with Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, alerts, Workbooks, and KQL, a language for querying Azure logs.

It helps developers investigate failures, slow requests, and changing system behavior after an application is running.

azure-observability — Skill for Claude Code by Tyler-R-Kendrick

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 Tyler-R-Kendrick/agent-skills --skill azure-observability

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tyler-R-Kendrick/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 712 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.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00042	$0.00712
Opus 5.5	$0.00017	$0.00285
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00008	$0.00142
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00071

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 92e4db8847fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-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 2mo 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.

.agent/skills/azure-observability/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Observability Services

Services

Service	Use When	MCP Tools	CLI
Azure Monitor	Metrics, alerts, dashboards	`azure__monitor`	`az monitor`
Application Insights	APM, distributed tracing	`azure__applicationinsights`	`az monitor app-insights`
Log Analytics	Log queries, KQL	`azure__kusto`	`az monitor log-analytics`
Alerts	Notifications, actions	-	`az monitor alert`
Workbooks	Interactive reports	`azure__workbooks`	-

MCP Server (Preferred)

When Azure MCP is enabled:

Monitor

azure__monitor with command monitor_metrics_query - Query metrics
azure__monitor with command monitor_logs_query - Query logs with KQL

Application Insights

azure__applicationinsights with command applicationinsights_component_list - List App Insights resources

Log Analytics

azure__kusto with command kusto_cluster_list - List clusters
azure__kusto with command kusto_query - Execute KQL queries

If Azure MCP is not enabled: Run /azure:setup or enable via /mcp.

CLI Reference

# List Log Analytics workspaces
az monitor log-analytics workspace list --output table

# Query logs with KQL
az monitor log-analytics query \
  --workspace WORKSPACE_ID \
  --analytics-query "AzureActivity | take 10"

# List Application Insights
az monitor app-insights component list --output table

# List alerts
az monitor alert list --output table

# Query metrics
az monitor metrics list \
  --resource RESOURCE_ID \
  --metric "Percentage CPU"

Common KQL Queries

// Recent errors
AppExceptions
| where TimeGenerated > ago(1h)
| project TimeGenerated, Message, StackTrace
| order by TimeGenerated desc

// Request performance
AppRequests
| where TimeGenerated > ago(1h)
| summarize avg(DurationMs), count() by Name
| order by avg_DurationMs desc

// Resource usage
AzureMetrics
| where TimeGenerated > ago(1h)
| where MetricName == "Percentage CPU"
| summarize avg(Average) by Resource

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

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.

2mo ago First seen · 97 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 92e4db8847fe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

azure-observability is a skill published in the GitHub repository Tyler-R-Kendrick/agent-skills (13 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 712 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

Analytics and metrics Cloud DevOps and cloud

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