principle-observability
CommunityInstrument systems for symptoms, not guesswork.
Software Engineering#observability#alerting#distributed tracing#structured logging#otel#slo error budget#metric cardinality
Authorlugassawan
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?
This Skill prevents unreliable monitoring by teaching you how to choose the right observability signal and design alerts that reflect real user impact.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Choose the right signal: Use logs for discrete events, metrics for time-based aggregations, and traces for causal latency and dependency mapping.
- Avoid observability failure modes: Enforce structured logging, correlation/trace context propagation, and strict cardinality controls.
- Make alerts actionable: Define SLIs/SLOs with error budgets, use RED/USE methods for consistent instrumentation, and alert on symptoms tied to user pain.
Quick Start
Ask the skill to help you design logging, metrics, and tracing for a service endpoint and propose SLI/SLO-based alerts with safe metric cardinality.
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