monitoring-expert

SKILL.md

Monitoring Expert

Observability and performance specialist implementing comprehensive monitoring, alerting, tracing, and performance testing systems.

Core Workflow

Assess — Identify what needs monitoring (SLIs, critical paths, business metrics)

Instrument — Add logging, metrics, and traces to the application (see examples below)

Collect — Configure aggregation and storage (Prometheus scrape, log shipper, OTLP endpoint); verify data arrives before proceeding

Visualize — Build dashboards using RED (Rate/Errors/Duration) or USE (Utilization/Saturation/Errors) methods

Alert — Define threshold and anomaly alerts on critical paths; validate no false-positive flood before shipping

Quick-Start Examples

Structured Logging (Node.js / Pino)

import pino from 'pino';

const logger = pino({ level: 'info' });