Observability and Instrumentation

by addyosmani

Observability and Instrumentation is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by addyosmani in agent-skills.

86.7K stars9.3K forkson addyosmani/agent-skillsAdded 2026/08/13Repository updated 2026/08/11

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Install Observability and Instrumentation

Copy Observability and Instrumentation into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/observability-and-instrumentation ~/.claude/skills/observability-and-instrumentation

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/observability-and-instrumentation/SKILL.md in addyosmani/agent-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/observability-and-instrumentation
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Observability and Instrumentation does

Observability and Instrumentation instruments code so production behavior is visible and diagnosable, adding logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting when shipping production features or diagnosing production issues with limited data.

Observability and Instrumentation is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Observability and Instrumentation comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, antigravity, claude-code, codex and cursor.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Observability and Instrumentation

Overview

Code you can't observe is code you can't operate. Observability is the ability to answer "what is the system doing and why?" from the outside, using the telemetry the code emits. Instrumentation is not a post-launch add-on — it's written alongside the feature, the same way tests are. If a feature ships without telemetry, the first user-reported bug becomes archaeology instead of a query.

When to Use

Building any feature that will run in production
Adding a new service, endpoint, background job, or external integration
A production incident took too long to diagnose ("we couldn't tell what happened")
Setting up or reviewing alerting rules
Reviewing a PR that adds I/O, retries, queues, or cross-service calls

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Observability and Instrumentation

What else does addyosmani publish alongside Observability and Instrumentation?
Observability and Instrumentation is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from addyosmani/agent-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API and Interface Design, Agent Skill Discovery and Browser Testing. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Observability and Instrumentation does, and is maintained by addyosmani in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the addyosmani/agent-skills page.
How does Observability and Instrumentation compare to other DevOps skills?
Observability and Instrumentation ranks #9 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Observability and Instrumentation against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.