What problem does it solve?
It helps diagnose why an Envoy proxy is misbehaving by mapping real-time Netdata observations to specific Envoy failure archetypes and guiding remediation-oriented troubleshooting.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Envoy failure archetype triage: Targets connection pool exhaustion cascades, memory pressure spirals, xDS control plane disconnects, retry amplification, and stats cardinality explosions.
- Netdata-backed evidence via MCP: Queries Envoy-related Netdata chart contexts through an MCP surface to validate the current incident state.
- Operator playbook diagnostic tree: Applies the same domain decomposition (Availability, Throughput, Latency, Errors, Saturation, Internal State, Configuration State) to structure analysis and next actions.
- Use case: When on-call engineers receive alerts or users report elevated errors/latency/saturation, this skill helps select the right signal domain, pull the relevant time windows, and recommend remediation steps aligned to the playbook.
Quick Start
Ask an AI agent: "Troubleshoot my Envoy using Netdata via MCP and identify the most likely failure archetype, then recommend remediation based on the operator playbook."