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Observability Playbook for Claude Skills

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January 14, 2025

Great AI experiences demand great observability. We capture structured events across Claude Skills, MCP servers, and downstream APIs to build a full execution timeline.

Key Signals to Track

Latency and token usage per skill block to identify hotspots.
Guardrail activation counts to surface policy drift.
MCP reliability metrics grouped by environment and credential scopes.

Dashboard showing Claude Skills metrics and alerts — The observability starter pack includes Grafana dashboards, alert recipes, and incident runbooks.

Pair monitoring with automated testing pipelines. Run regression suites nightly and compare outputs to golden datasets so changes stay safe.

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