observability-and-monitoring

observability-and-monitoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vignesh2027/AI-AGENT-SKILLS. It costs 24 tokens per session (886 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for making running software understandable through logs, metrics, traces, and alerts. Logs record events, metrics measure behavior, and traces follow a request across services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Defining service measures and targets, adding structured logs, tracing requests, setting alerts, and checking whether new services or data flows can be debugged.
Why use it?
It makes production failures and slow behavior easier to investigate without adding temporary diagnostic code. Clear targets also help determine when an alert is needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Defining service measures and targets, adding structured logs, tracing requests, setting alerts, and checking whether new services or data flows can be debugged.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vignesh2027/ai-agent-skills/observability-and-monitoring
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vignesh2027/AI-AGENT-SKILLS --skill observability-and-monitoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vignesh2027/AI-AGENT-SKILLS

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 886 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00024 $0.00886
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00443
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00089

Measured 12d ago against content hash 71ec1ae61d42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observability-and-monitoring 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 12d 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/observability-and-monitoring/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

A system you cannot observe is a system you cannot debug. Observability is not a dashboard — it is the ability to answer any question about system behavior using existing data, without deploying new code. This skill implements the three pillars (logs, metrics, traces) and the alerts that page you before users notice.

When to Use

  • Before deploying any new service or significant feature
  • When a production issue took more than 30 minutes to diagnose
  • When adding a new data flow, user journey, or integration
  • As part of the /ship workflow

Process

Step 1: Define the SLIs and SLOs

SLI (Service Level Indicator): what you measure — latency, error rate, availability, throughput. SLO (Service Level Objective): the target — "p99 latency < 500ms," "error rate < 0.1%."

Without SLOs, you don't know when to alert.

Step 2: Structured logging

  • Log in JSON (not freeform text)
  • Include: timestamp, log level, service name, trace ID, user ID (hashed), request ID
  • Log at entry and exit of every significant operation
  • Log errors with: exception type, message, stack trace, context
  • Never log PII, passwords, tokens, or credit card numbers
  • Log what happened, not just that it happened

Step 3: Key metrics

Implement the four golden signals for every service:

  • Latency — p50, p95, p99 response time
  • Traffic — requests per second, events per second
  • Errors — error rate (4xx, 5xx), error count
  • Saturation — CPU, memory, queue depth, connection pool

Add business metrics: active users, signups, payments, key conversions.

Step 4: Distributed tracing

  • Assign a trace ID to every inbound request
  • Propagate the trace ID to all downstream calls (outbound HTTP, database, queue)
  • Use OpenTelemetry or compatible SDK
  • Sample at 100% for errors; sample at 1–10% for success paths

Step 5: Health checks and readiness probes

  • /healthz — is the service alive?
  • /readyz — is the service ready to accept traffic?
  • Health checks must not perform significant work (no database writes)
  • Check downstream dependencies in readiness probe

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 98 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 71ec1ae61d42

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observability-and-monitoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository vignesh2027/AI-AGENT-SKILLS (1 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 886 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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