logfire-instrumentation
Instrument with Logfire
When to Use This Skill
Invoke this skill when:
- User asks to "add logfire", "add observability", "add tracing", or "add monitoring"
- User wants to instrument an app with structured logging or tracing (Python, JS/TS, or Rust)
- User mentions Logfire in any context
- User asks to "add logging" or "see what my app is doing"
- User wants to monitor AI/LLM calls (PydanticAI, OpenAI, Anthropic)
- User asks to add observability to an AI agent or LLM pipeline
How Logfire Works
Logfire is an observability platform built on OpenTelemetry. It captures traces, logs, and metrics from applications. Logfire has native SDKs for Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Rust, plus support for any language via OpenTelemetry.
The reason this skill exists is that Claude tends to get a few things subtly wrong with Logfire - especially the ordering of configure() vs instrument_*() calls, the structured logging syntax, and which extras to install. These matter because a misconfigured setup silently drops traces.
Step 1: Detect Language and Frameworks
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