algolia-observability
Installation
SKILL.md
Algolia Observability
Overview
Algolia provides built-in analytics in the dashboard, but production systems need application-level observability: latency histograms, error rate counters, distributed traces, and alerts. This skill instruments the algoliasearch v5 client with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and structured logging.
Key Metrics to Track
| Metric | Type | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|
| Search latency (P50/P95/P99) | Histogram | User experience, SLA compliance |
| Search requests/sec | Counter | Capacity planning, cost tracking |
| Error rate by type | Counter | Detect API issues before users report |
| Index freshness (last updated) | Gauge | Data pipeline health |
| Record count | Gauge | Cost monitoring, data integrity |