# monitoring-expert

> Claude/Codex skill by [@jeffallan](https://omgskills.com/library/jeffallan/index.md) · 12k stars · Updated 2026-10-30

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.

Tags: ai-agents, claude, claude-code, claude-marketplace, claude-skills

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills /tmp/claude-skills && ln -s /tmp/claude-skills/skills/monitoring-expert ~/.claude/skills/monitoring-expert
```

## From 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 |...

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/jeffallan/claude-skills/monitoring-expert/
- GitHub: https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills
- Author: [@jeffallan](https://omgskills.com/library/jeffallan/index.md)

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