Observability & Monitoring Toolkit

## Overview

Observability & Monitoring Toolkit bundles three production-grade skills for building a complete observability stack — collect metrics with Prometheus, visualize them in Grafana dashboards, and trace requests across service meshes.

## Quick Start

1. Install the plugin: `npx skillstore add @observability-monitoring-toolkit`
2. Set up metric collection with **prometheus-configuration** — define scrape targets, recording rules, and alerting thresholds
3. Build dashboards with **grafana-dashboards** — create panels for system and application metrics with proven layout patterns
4. Add distributed tracing with **service-mesh-observability** — implement tracing, SLO monitoring, and mesh-level metrics for Istio or Linkerd

## Key Commands

- **prometheus-configuration** — `Set up Prometheus for comprehensive metric collection, storage, and monitoring` — scrape configs, recording rules, alertmanager integration
- **grafana-dashboards** — `Create and manage production Grafana dashboards` — panel templates, variable-driven layouts, alert annotations
- **service-mesh-observability** — `Implement comprehensive observability for service meshes` — distributed tracing, mesh metrics, SLO dashboards

## Tips

- Start with **prometheus-configuration** to define your metrics pipeline, then use **grafana-dashboards** to visualize those exact metrics with pre-built panel patterns.
- Use **service-mesh-observability** when you need to trace latency across microservices — it complements Prometheus point-in-time metrics with request-level tracing context.