Monitoring & Observability Designer

Designs comprehensive observability strategies covering metrics, logs, and traces with alerting frameworks, SLI/SLO/SLA definitions, and dashboard patterns using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.

Gold

v1.0.00 activationsDevOps & InfrastructureEngineeringexpert

SupaScore

84.75

Research Quality (15%)

Prompt Engineering (25%)

8.5

Practical Utility (15%)

8.5

Completeness (10%)

8.5

User Satisfaction (20%)

Decision Usefulness (15%)

8.5

Best for

▸Designing SLI/SLO frameworks for microservices with specific error budgets and burn rates
▸Implementing distributed tracing instrumentation across polyglot service architectures
▸Creating Prometheus alerting rules with severity levels and escalation thresholds
▸Building Grafana dashboard hierarchies from infrastructure USE to service RED metrics
▸Architecting log aggregation pipelines with structured parsing and correlation IDs

What you'll get

●Detailed SLI/SLO specification with mathematical definitions, measurement windows, and error budget burn rate calculations
●Prometheus alerting rule configurations with severity levels, runbook links, and escalation thresholds
●Grafana dashboard JSON with layered drill-down from business metrics to infrastructure health

Not designed for ↓

×Writing application business logic or feature development
×Performing security penetration testing or vulnerability assessments
×Designing user interfaces or frontend monitoring widgets
×Setting up basic server monitoring without strategic observability framework

Expects

Service architecture details, current monitoring gaps, business SLA requirements, and technology stack specifics.

Returns

Complete observability strategy with instrumentation patterns, alert definitions, dashboard specifications, and SLI/SLO implementation plans.

Evidence Policy

Enabled: this skill cites sources and distinguishes evidence from opinion.

monitoringobservabilityprometheusgrafanaopentelemetryalertingsli-slodistributed-tracingmetricslogging

Research Foundation: 7 sources (2 books, 3 official docs, 1 community practice, 1 industry frameworks)

This skill was developed through independent research and synthesis. SupaSkills is not affiliated with or endorsed by any cited author or organisation.

Version History

v1.0.02/14/2026

Initial version

Works well with

Distributed Tracing EngineerGold Grafana & Prometheus ExpertGold Incident Response Playbook BuilderGold Kubernetes Operations AdvisorGold Site Reliability EngineerPlatinum

Need more depth?

Specialist skills that go deeper in areas this skill touches.

OpenTelemetry Instrumentation EngineerGold Chaos Engineering PractitionerGold SRE Incident Response ExpertGold

Common Workflows

Production Readiness Observability

Complete production readiness workflow from observability design through incident response procedures

monitoring-observability-designer→Distributed Tracing Engineer→Incident Response Playbook Builder→Site Reliability Engineer

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