PromQL Query Generator

Overview

This skill provides a comprehensive, interactive workflow for generating production-ready PromQL queries with best practices built-in. Generate queries for monitoring dashboards, alerting rules, and ad-hoc analysis with an emphasis on user collaboration and planning before code generation.

When to Use This Skill

Invoke this skill when:

• Creating new PromQL queries from scratch
• Building monitoring dashboards (Grafana, Prometheus UI, etc.)
• Implementing alerting rules for Prometheus Alertmanager
• Analyzing metrics for troubleshooting or capacity planning
• Converting monitoring requirements into PromQL expressions
• Learning PromQL or teaching others
• The user asks to "create", "generate", "build", or "write" PromQL queries
• Working with Prometheus metrics (counters, gauges, histograms, summaries)
• Implementing RED (Rate, Errors, Duration) or USE (Utilization, Saturation, Errors) metrics