Observability

Purpose

Set up structured logging, metrics, and distributed tracing to understand system behavior in production.

Agent Protocol

Trigger

Exact user phrases: "observability", "logging", "metrics", "tracing", "OpenTelemetry", "Grafana", "Prometheus", "structured logs", "distributed tracing", "monitoring".

Input Context

Before activating, verify:

• The stack is known (for OpenTelemetry SDK selection).
• The existing observability tooling is understood (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
• The traffic volume is known (for trace sampling strategy).

Output Artifact

No file output. This skill produces an observability plan.