backend-error-observability-review

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps teams review backend code for error handling and observability issues before they reach production, reducing silent failures, confusing logs, and unsafe error responses.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Exception design review: Checks whether errors are modeled with meaningful domain-specific types and propagated correctly.
• Logging and tracing review: Verifies log level discipline, structured logging, correlation IDs, and trace context propagation.
• Operational coverage: Looks for metrics on critical paths and flags response bodies that expose internal stack traces or framework details.
• Use Case: Use it when auditing a service endpoint that performs database, HTTP, or queue I/O and you need to confirm the failure path is observable and safe.

Quick Start

Ask the assistant to review the backend service for exception handling, logging, metrics, tracing, and error-response issues.