Monitoring Setup Guide

Write a monitoring setup guide for a service — defining what to measure, how to alert on it, and how to build the observability stack covering the four golden signals, business metrics, log strategy, distributed tracing, alerting rules, dashboard layout, and observability debt. Use when asked to set up monitoring for a service, define alerting strategy, write an observability plan, create a dashboard specification, or document logging standards for a team. Produces a metric definitions table, alert rules specification, dashboard layout wireframe, log schema, tracing setup checklist, and monitoring gap analysis.

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

What to give it

• Service name and description — what the service does and its role in the system
• Tech stack — language, framework, and infrastructure (e.g. Go/gRPC on Kubernetes, Python/FastAPI on ECS)
• Current monitoring tooling — Datadog, Prometheus + Grafana, CloudWatch, New Relic, Honeycomb, or none yet
• Key user journeys — the 2–4 most important things a user or consumer does with the service (these drive what to alert on)
• Existing alerts — paste any existing alert configurations or describe what's currently monitored

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