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honeycomb-observability-fundamentals from aws/tools-for-devops-agent is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- SKILL.md skill
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- v1.0.0, committed Oct 26, 2026
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- Apache-2.0
Load when the operator asks a conceptual question about observability or Honeycomb: what observability is, why wide events, what high cardinality or dimensionality means, events vs metrics vs logs, observability vs monitoring, or the core analysis loop. Grounds recommendations in first principles. Not for running queries or investigating a live issue.
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What the file says
# Honeycomb Observability Fundamentals First principles behind Honeycomb's approach to observability. Use this to ground recommendations and answer conceptual questions — for query guidance, see the **honeycomb-query-patterns** skill. ## Definitions **Observability**: The ability to understand and explain any state your system can get into, no matter how novel or complex — by examining what the system produces, without deploying new code for each new question. **Wide event**: A flat key-value record capturing the full context of a unit of work — who made the request, which endpoint, cache hit/miss, build version, duration, error status, and any business context relevant to the operation. In OpenTelemetry, a **span** is a wide event. **High cardinality**: The number of unique values a field can have. `user.id` with millions of values is high cardinality. `http.method` with a handful is low cardinality. **High dimensionality**: The number of distinct fields on your events. A span with 50 attributes has high dimensionality. | Concept | Observability | Traditional Monitoring | |---|---|---| | Questions | Arbitrary, unknown ahead of time | Pre-defined (dashboards, alerts) | …
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How to install
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aws/tools-for-devops-agent · 137 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
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