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python-observability from wshobson/agents 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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- 2
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- git:20260522.be57c0b, committed May 22, 2026
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- Jan 30, 2026
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- 7,098 bytes
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- 42,320
- License
- MIT
Python observability patterns including structured logging, metrics, and distributed tracing. Use when adding logging, implementing metrics collection, setting up tracing, or debugging production systems.
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
# Python Observability
Instrument Python applications with structured logs, metrics, and traces. When something breaks in production, you need to answer "what, where, and why" without deploying new code.
## When to Use This Skill
- Adding structured logging to applications
- Implementing metrics collection with Prometheus
- Setting up distributed tracing across services
- Propagating correlation IDs through request chains
- Debugging production issues
- Building observability dashboards
## Core Concepts
### 1. Structured Logging
Emit logs as JSON with consistent fields for production environments. Machine-readable logs enable powerful queries and alerts. For local development, consider human-readable formats.
### 2. The Four Golden Signals
Track latency, traffic, errors, and saturation for every service boundary.
### 3. Correlation IDs
Thread a unique ID through all logs and spans for a single request, enabling end-to-end tracing.
### 4. Bounded Cardinality
Keep metric label values bounded. Unbounded labels (like user IDs) explode storage costs.
## Quick Start
```python
import structlog
structlog.configure(
processors=[
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How to install
mdr add wshobson/agents/python-observability@sha256:bf547d6ee0284ce2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260522.be57c0b, 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.
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Source
wshobson/agents · 42,320 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
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