observability-and-instrumentation - Make production behavior visible with telemetry
Instruments production code with structured logs, metrics, traces, and symptom-based alerts for diagnosis.
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Updated: 2026-09-28Capabilities
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What this skill does
- Define operational questions
- Select telemetry signals
- Add structured logs
- Instrument RED metrics
- Create distributed traces
- Configure symptom alerts
- Write alert runbooks
Inputs
- Feature behavior
- Operational questions
- Service boundaries
- Dependency boundaries
- SLOs or historical data
- Telemetry backend configuration
Outputs
- Structured logs
- Metrics
- Distributed traces
- Alert rules
- Alert runbooks
- Correlation IDs
Requirements
- Access to service code
- Production telemetry pipeline
- OpenTelemetry SDK support
- Alert configuration permissions