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monitoring-observability from travisjneuman/.claude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add travisjneuman/.claude/monitoring-observability@git:20260930.c8d311d

Pins git:20260930.c8d311d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: travisjneuman/.claude
Path: skills/monitoring-observability/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 3
Latest version: git:20260930.c8d311d, committed Sep 30, 2026
First version recorded: Feb 7, 2026
Size: 15,168 bytes
Repository stars: 105
License: MIT

OpenTelemetry, structured logging, distributed tracing, alerting, and dashboards. Use when instrumenting services, designing logs/traces/metrics, defining SLOs and alerts, or debugging production behavior from telemetry.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Monitoring & Observability

## Overview

This skill covers the three pillars of observability -- traces, metrics, and logs -- along with alerting, dashboards, and health check patterns. It focuses on OpenTelemetry as the vendor-neutral standard, structured logging for queryability, distributed tracing for microservice debugging, and SLO-based alerting to reduce noise.

Use this skill when instrumenting applications for production visibility, setting up monitoring infrastructure, debugging distributed systems, configuring alerts that matter, or building dashboards for operations and product teams.

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## Core Principles

1. **Instrument at boundaries** - Trace every external call (HTTP, database, queue, cache). Internal function tracing adds noise; boundary tracing reveals system behavior.
2. **Structured over unstructured** - Every log entry must be JSON with correlation IDs, service name, and context. Unstructured logs are unsearchable at scale.
3. **Alert on symptoms, not causes** - Alert when users are affected (error rate, latency SLO breach), not when a specific server metric spikes. Symptom-based alerting reduces noise by 80%.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add travisjneuman/.claude/monitoring-observability@sha256:8c5f34a3d69b0a75

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.c8d311d, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_4whezhrbo6uut6ls.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_4whezhrbo6uut6ls)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Feb 7, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026, about one every 117 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260930.c8d311d latest	2026-09-30	c8d311d	15,168 B	A	view · diff
git:20260228.62823bf	2026-02-28	62823bf	15,028 B	A	view · diff
git:20260207.49cc324	2026-02-07	49cc324	15,010 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (15168 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

travisjneuman/.claude · 105 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4whezhrbo6uut6ls
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=travisjneuman/.claude/monitoring-observability
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8c5f34a3d69b0a759addc09dbed7a3cd8450fa3c054265f75a60f4aca053b6c1

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