aws-observability

Builds, configures, debugs, and optimizes AWS observability using CloudWatch (Logs Insights, Metrics, Alarms, Dashboards, EMF), X-Ray, CloudTrail, and ADOT.…

INSTALLATION
npx skills add https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-observability
Run in your project or agent environment. Adjust flags if your CLI version differs.

SKILL.md

AWS Observability

Overview

Domain expertise for AWS observability across metrics, logs, and traces. Covers CloudWatch platform capabilities (alarms, dashboards, Log Insights, custom metrics, EMF), X-Ray trace analysis, CloudTrail operational auditing, and ADOT collector configuration.

Works best with the AWS MCP server — enables running CLI commands, querying CloudWatch, and validating configurations directly. All guidance also works with standard AWS CLI access.

Note: Reference files contain specific runtime versions, quota values, and feature matrices that may change. When precision matters (e.g., deploying to production, choosing a runtime, or checking a quota), confirm values against current AWS documentation rather than relying solely on the values in these files.

Routing

User need

Action

Writing Log Insights queries

Read log-insights.md

Configuring alarms (metric, composite, anomaly)

Read alarms.md

Publishing custom metrics or using EMF

Read metrics.md

Setting up X-Ray tracing or ADOT

Read tracing.md

Building dashboards

Read dashboards.md

Debugging observability issues

Read troubleshooting.md — starts with the 5 most common fixes

Debugging canary failures

Read synthetics.md — see Common failures table

CloudTrail operational auditing

Read cloudtrail.md

Setting up Lambda monitoring with CDK

Use alarm-template.ts as a starting point

Creating synthetic canaries

Read synthetics.md

Configuring ADOT collector

Use otel-config.yaml as a starting point

Spans multiple areas

Read the most specific reference first, then consult others as needed

Files

File

Content

alarms.md

Metric, composite, anomaly detection alarms — configuration, constraints, recommended defaults

log-insights.md

Complete query syntax, commands, functions, known issues, reusable query library

metrics.md

Custom metrics, EMF spec, metric filters, high-resolution, retention

tracing.md

X-Ray → ADOT migration, sampling rules, annotations vs metadata, collector config

dashboards.md

Widget types, cross-account/region, dynamic labels, sharing

troubleshooting.md

Error → cause → fix for all observability services

cloudtrail.md

Operational auditing, event types, S3+Athena queries

synthetics.md

Canary runtime/blueprint constraints, VPC networking, common failures

alarm-template.ts

Best-practice CDK Lambda monitoring (alarms + dashboard)

otel-config.yaml

ADOT collector config for X-Ray traces + CloudWatch EMF metrics

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