Instrumentation Planning

This skill guides you through designing an instrumentation strategy - the systematic approach to deciding what events and properties to track in your application.

LLM chat, AI agents and MCP servers have a standard event set; for those surfaces use rudder-ai-events-setup instead of designing custom events.

Why Planning Matters

Poor instrumentation leads to:

• Data gaps - Can't answer business questions
• Data bloat - Too many events, high costs, noise
• Inconsistency - Same action tracked differently across teams
• Technical debt - Constant schema changes breaking dashboards

Good instrumentation provides:

• Complete funnel visibility - Every step from acquisition to retention
• Consistent naming - Clear conventions everyone follows
• Maintainable schema - Easy to extend, hard to break
• Actionable insights - Data that drives decisions