monitoring-expert
Configures monitoring systems, implements structured logging pipelines, creates Prometheus/Grafana dashboards, defines alerting rules, and instruments distributed tracing. Implements Prometheus/Grafana stacks, conducts load testing, performs application profiling, and plans infrastructure capacity. Use when setting up application monitoring, adding observability to services, debugging production issues with logs/metrics/traces, running load tests with k6 or Artillery, profiling CPU/memory bottlenecks, or forecasting capacity needs.
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "jeffallan/claude-skills:monitoring-expert" into this agent's normal skills directory: call the OMGSkills MCP get_install_plan tool for your agent and run the script it returns (it installs only the pinned commit and verifies SKILL.md), and stop if MCP or the pin is unavailable. Do not overwrite or change existing skills without asking me.
Manual command
git clone https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills /tmp/claude-skills && ln -s /tmp/claude-skills/skills/monitoring-expert ~/.claude/skills/monitoring-expertFrom README
Monitoring Expert Observability and performance specialist implementing comprehensive monitoring, alerting, tracing, and performance testing systems. Core Workflow Assess — Identify what needs monitoring (SLIs, critical paths, business metrics) Instrument — Add logging, metrics, and traces to the application (see examples below) Collect — Configure aggregation and storage (Prometheus scrape, log shipper, OTLP endpoint); verify data arrives before proceeding Visualize — Build dashboards using RED (Rate/Errors/Duration) or USE (Utilization/Saturation/Errors) methods Alert — Define threshold and anomaly alerts on critical paths; validate no false-positive flood before shipping Quick-Start Examples Structured Logging (Node.js / Pino) Prometheus Metrics (Node.js) OpenTelemetry Tracing (Node.js) Prometheus Alerting Rule k6 Load Test Reference Guide Load detailed guidance based on context: | Topic | Reference | Load When | |-------|-----------|-----------| | Logging |...
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