sysdesign-monitoring-4-golden-signals

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Lock in four golden signals for steady monitoring.

Authordanilods
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

Systems teams often struggle to establish clear observability boundaries, leading to noisy dashboards and missed outages. This skill provides a principled approach by anchoring monitoring to the four golden signals.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Latency, Traffic, Errors, and Saturation definitions are applied per service surface to guide thresholding and alerting.
  • Per-surface role assignment (page, ticket, dashboard) ensures alerts scale without paging on every spike.
  • Observability guidance including burn-rate alerts and downstream saturation considerations for end-to-end visibility in distributed systems.

Quick Start

Configure the four golden signals for your service and set initial per-surface thresholds to start monitoring.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

Standard package

💻 Claude Code Installation

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Please help me install this Skill:
Name: sysdesign-monitoring-4-golden-signals
Download link: https://github.com/danilods/matilha-sysdesign-pack/archive/main.zip#sysdesign-monitoring-4-golden-signals

Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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