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Instrument production metrics with clarity.

Software Engineering#dashboard#observability#prometheus#opentelemetry#cardinality#metrics-design
Authormarquesfelip
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps teams design and implement robust service metrics, enabling observability across production systems by providing a structured approach to metric types, naming conventions, labeling, and dashboards.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Design metric types (Counter, Gauge, Histogram, Summary) and their usage for common operational signals.
  • Apply RED (Rate, Errors, Duration) and USE (Utilization, Saturation, Errors) methodologies to align instrumentation with business goals.
  • Define naming conventions and low-cardinality labels, plus guidance on recording rules and dashboards for Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, and CloudWatch.
  • Create business and domain metrics to quantify user journeys and revenue-impacting operations, with examples for alerting and dashboards.

Quick Start

Configure a metrics design plan for your service by selecting metric types, naming conventions, and RED/USE signals, then implement instrumentation in your codebase.

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None required

Components

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