Observability Designer

This generates comprehensive observability architectures for distributed systems, covering everything from metrics and logging to tracing and alerting strategies. You'd reach for it when spinning up monitoring for a new microservice setup or when your existing observability is a mess of ad-hoc dashboards and nobody knows what to alert on. It thinks through the whole stack at once, which beats cobbling together monitoring piecemeal. The real value is getting a coherent design that considers both the application layer and infrastructure together, though you'll still need to adapt the output to your specific tools and constraints.

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$ npx -y skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill observability-designer --agent claude-code

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Observability Designer (POWERFUL)

Category: Engineering
Tier: POWERFUL
Description: Design comprehensive observability strategies for production systems including SLI/SLO frameworks, alerting optimization, and dashboard generation.

Overview

Observability Designer creates production-ready dashboards, alert configurations, and monitoring strategies across the three pillars (metrics, logs, traces).

When NOT to use → slo-architect. For SLO/SLI design with error-budget math, multi-window burn-rate alerting thresholds, and SLO review gates, route to slo-architect — it is the authoritative skill for that half. This skill's slo_designer.py produces a quick scaffold only. This skill's lane: dashboards (dashboard_generator.py) and alert-noise reduction (alert_optimizer.py).

Quick Start

# Dashboard spec (Grafana JSON + docs) for a service
python3 scripts/dashboard_generator.py --service-type api --name payments --criticality critical --role sre --format grafana -o dashboard.json --doc-output dashboard.md

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