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observability-and-instrumentation is agent-read markdown (skill) from nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles: Instruments code so production behavior is visible and diagnosable. Use when adding logging, metrics, tracing, or alerting. Use when shipping any feature that runs in production and you need evidence it works. Use when production issues are reported but you can't tell what happened from the available data..

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# Observability and Instrumentation

## Overview

Code you can't observe is code you can't operate. Observability is the ability to answer "what is the system doing and why?" from the outside, using the telemetry the code emits. Instrumentation is not a post-launch add-on — it's written alongside the feature, the same way tests are. If a feature ships without telemetry, the first user-reported bug becomes archaeology instead of a query.

## When to Use

- Building any feature that will run in production
- Adding a new service, endpoint, background job, or external integration
- A production incident took too long to diagnose ("we couldn't tell what happened")
- Setting up or reviewing alerting rules
- Reviewing a PR that adds I/O, retries, queues, or cross-service calls

**NOT for:**
- Diagnosing a failure happening right now — use the `debugging-and-error-recovery` skill (observability is what makes that skill fast next time)
- Profiling and optimizing measured slowness — use the `performance-optimization` skill
- Launch-day monitoring checklists and rollback triggers — see the `shipping-and-launch` skill; this skill covers the instrumentation that feeds them

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mdr add nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles/observability-and-instrumentation@git:20260916.3a6b22e

mdr add nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles/observability-and-instrumentation@sha256:e7fcb0820306d462

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