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service-mesh-observability

Implement comprehensive observability

service-mesh-observability is an agent skill from the wshobson/agents collection for making the traffic inside a service mesh observable. It covers observability patterns for Istio, Linkerd and similar meshes, built on the three pillars of observability: logs, metrics and traces. Because the mesh sits between services, it can report on every request without changes to application code, and the skill explains how to turn that into distributed tracing across services, metrics and dashboards that show request rates, errors and latency, and visualizations of how services depend on each other. It also covers defining service level objectives (SLOs) for communication between services, so reliability targets are measured from the mesh rather than estimated. The uses include setting up distributed tracing across services, implementing mesh metrics and dashboards, debugging latency and error problems, defining SLOs for service communication, visualizing service dependencies, and troubleshooting mesh connectivity. The skill is for platform and reliability engineers who run a service mesh and need to see inside it during an incident. The agent can set up the telemetry configuration for a mesh, and the team decides which signals are worth alerting on. The skill is installed with the skills CLI from the wshobson/agents repository. Its skills.sh page showed about 10.1K installs and passing results from three security audits at the time of the scan.