# ns-analyze-tracing

> Claude/Codex skill by [@nodesource](https://omgskills.com/library/nodesource/index.md) · 0 stars · Updated 2026-09-16

Analyzes N|Solid/OpenTelemetry tracing evidence for request latency, HTTP errors, and service dependencies. Use when the user asks about slow endpoints, API timeouts, distributed traces/spans, N+1 queries, await chains, microservice latency, cascading failures, or trace IDs. Query N|Solid only when no trace data was provided. Do not assume full waterfall details unless supplied.

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/nodesource/nsolid-skills-plugin /tmp/nsolid-skills-plugin && ln -s /tmp/nsolid-skills-plugin/skills/ns-analyze-tracing ~/.claude/skills/ns-analyze-tracing
```

## From README

Use Provided Trace Data First Treat the prompt as primary evidence. Parse any provided trace ID, span list, app name, endpoint name, status code, duration, or error stack before calling tools. If the user supplied a trace tree/export or any other host-provided trace data, treat it as authoritative: map that hierarchy directly and do not fall through to live enrichment (information-dashboard, tracing). The connected-services discovery (step 2) and live tracing queries (steps 3–4) are only for when no sufficient host data is present. If the user supplied only a trace ID (not a full tree), call tracing with spantraceId for list-level rows only; the MCP tool does not expose full waterfall details. Discover Connected Services Only When Needed Skip this step entirely if sufficient host-provided trace data is present (step 1 already authoritatively covered it). Call information-dashboard (no parameters) to list all connected agents and their app names and id values.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/nodesource/nsolid-skills-plugin/skills/ns-analyze-tracing/
- GitHub: https://github.com/nodesource/nsolid-skills-plugin
- Author: [@nodesource](https://omgskills.com/library/nodesource/index.md)

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