aws-observability

aws-observability is an Observability & incident response skill for AI agents, published by aws in the agent-toolkit-for-aws repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates aws-observability D (62/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Builds, configures, debugs, and optimizes AWS observability with CloudWatch (Log Insights, Metrics, Alarms, Dashboards, EMF), X-Ray, CloudTrail, and ADOT (AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry), AND enables/onboards services to Application Signals using ADOT auto-instrumentation SDKs. Covers Log Insights queries, alarms (metric, composite, anomaly), dashboards, custom metrics/EMF, X-Ray tracing and sampling, ADOT collector config, CloudTrail auditing, and end-to-end Application Signals enablement via ADOT SDKs (CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on, CloudWatch Agent IAM, OTLP endpoints, ServiceEvents, Dynamic Instrumentation), breakpoint and snapshot in Dynamic Instrumentation, live data capture in running service, debug without redeploying. Applies to CloudWatch, alarms, dashboards, EMF, X-Ray, traces, CloudTrail, ADOT, monitoring, synthetics/canaries, OR enabling/onboarding/instrumenting a service for Application Signals. Not for app logging or security threat detection.

Grade
D
Quality
62 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
2,601

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Our review

Architecture
78 / 100
Maturity
Structured: ships references or scripts
Security scan
No issues found
License
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