observability-and-instrumentation SKILL.md skillA
observability-and-instrumentation from seaworld008/commonly-used-high-value-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add seaworld008/commonly-used-high-value-skills/observability-and-instrumentation@v1.0.5Pins v1.0.5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- seaworld008/commonly-used-high-value-skills
- Path
openclaw-skills/observability-and-instrumentation/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.5, committed Oct 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 17, 2026
- Size
- 12,152 bytes
- Repository stars
- 73
- License
- MIT
Add or improve logs, metrics, traces, and alerts when services need diagnosable production behavior or operational acceptance evidence.
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 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
## Process
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add seaworld008/commonly-used-high-value-skills/observability-and-instrumentation@sha256:fefe29304982c207The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.5, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_w5l5diavxrodceac)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 17, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 15 days.
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| v1.0.5 latest | 2026-10-16 | acb3315 | 12,152 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.4 | 2026-09-14 | 52fc86a | 12,152 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.3 | 2026-09-07 | 7aad3b0 | 11,772 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.2 | 2026-09-06 | e36bbe4 | 11,772 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-08-17 | d608dde | 11,591 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12152 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
seaworld008/commonly-used-high-value-skills · 73 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_w5l5diavxrodceac GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=seaworld008/commonly-used-high-value-skills/observability-and-instrumentation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fefe29304982c20774bd067c2747cbf41ef1fe1e9228b5573b77d0a7734f72ea
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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.
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