observability-architect SKILL.md skillA
observability-architect from ralvarez-ai/ralvaskills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ralvarez-ai/ralvaskills/observability-architect@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ralvarez-ai/ralvaskills
- Path
skills/infra/observability-architect/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed May 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 21, 2026
- Size
- 10,528 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- GPL-3.0
Application-side observability — structured logs, Prometheus metrics, OTel traces, signal correlation, head sampling, PII discipline, RED+USE. Use when instrumenting code, naming metrics, or auditing what a service emits.
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
# Observability Architecture — Signal Production What an application emits about itself: **logs**, **metrics**, **traces**. Pairs with [grafana-architect](../grafana-architect/SKILL.md) which owns the consumption side (dashboards, alerts). This skill enforces what gets emitted, how it's named, and how the three pillars correlate. Wiring code in [RECIPES.md](RECIPES.md); pinned libraries in [STACK.md](STACK.md). ## 1. Three pillars + correlation Each pillar answers a different question: | Pillar | Question | Cardinality | Cost | |---|---|---|---| | **Logs** | "What happened on *this* request?" | High (per event) | High storage | | **Metrics** | "What is the *rate* / *aggregate*?" | Low (aggregated) | Low storage | | **Traces** | "What was the *path*?" | One per request | Medium | The *design goal* is **correlation**: from any signal you can pivot to the others. A trace shows a slow request → click → see the logs from that request → see the metric spike around the same time. This is what makes observability worth the cost. **Correlation mechanism: trace_id everywhere.** - Every log line carries the current `trace_id` and `span_id`. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ralvarez-ai/ralvaskills/observability-architect@sha256:9b28ee876c52d600The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 21, 2026 and May 22, 2026, more than one a day.
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-05-22 | e1b4216 | 10,528 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-05-21 | 1548524 | 13,503 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
ralvarez-ai/ralvaskills · 4 stars · license GPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_q7u4wl75p5fesipe GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ralvarez-ai/ralvaskills/observability-architect GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9b28ee876c52d6002c8d9f57534f763d3ccf238d3a7f1db9c5a744c8db1bf169
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.