Imported from igorsobralcc/AI-skills (skills/07-conditional-quality-operations/observability-engineering/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add igorsobralcc/AI-skills --skill observability-engineering. Copyright stays with the author.

Observability Engineering

Name: observability-engineering
Author: igorsobralcc

Activate during refinement for production services, external dependencies, background work, or critical user journeys.

Golden rules

Observe user outcomes, application flows, dependencies, saturation, failures, and recovery rather than instrumenting everything.
Use structured events, stable correlation and trace identifiers, meaningful units, and bounded-cardinality dimensions.
Separate liveness, readiness, and diagnostic detail. Define actionable dashboards and alert inputs with owners.
Document sampling, retention, privacy, cost, and expected diagnostic workflow.

Guardrails

Never log secrets, credentials, raw sensitive payloads, or uncontrolled personal data.
Avoid high-cardinality labels, duplicate telemetry, misleading health, and alerts unsupported by reliable signals.
Telemetry configuration in live systems requires authorization.

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