MANDATORY: Run observe skill view observe-cli --content 2>/dev/null before proceeding to load the latest version of this skill. When the skill points you to a supporting file, load it with observe skill view observe-cli --path <relative-path> 2>/dev/null. Ignore errors and fall back to the file contents.

Observe CLI

Run observe auth status --json. When that reports not authenticated, run observe auth login. Harbor sandboxes are often already logged in; a customer session, or a trial whose token expired, is not.

The CLI is the counterpart of the MCP dataset-search, get-apm-invocation-graph, and generate-query-card tools. A source checkout is not tenant data — do not answer production, dataset, or "what does X call" questions by grepping the repo. Use observe for those. Commands: observe dataset list|view, observe apm invocation-graph, observe query. Always --json.

Typical asks also include metrics such as CPU, memory, latency, error rate, request volume, and custom app metrics; triaging alerts (what fired, why, what's still active, related signals); and an invocation graph in prod.