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exploring-apm-traces

Skill

Investigates distributed application performance using PostHog APM (OpenTelemetry span) data via MCP. Use when the user asks about service traces, slow HTTP/database spans, error spans, error-rate trends or spikes, latency distributions, trace IDs, or span attributes — not AI observability traces or

Install

git clone https://github.com/PostHog/ai-plugin.git ~/.claude/skills/exploring-apm-traces

What is exploring-apm-traces?

Investigates distributed application performance using PostHog APM (OpenTelemetry span) data via MCP. Use when the user asks about service traces, slow HTTP/database spans, error spans, error-rate trends or spikes, latency distributions, trace IDs, or span attributes — not AI observability traces or product logs. Uses posthog:query-apm-spans, posthog:apm-trace-get, posthog:apm-spans-sparkline, posthog:apm-services-list, posthog:apm-attributes-list, and posthog:apm-attribute-values-list.

What this can do

Capabilities declared in this component's own frontmatter — not inferred.

Inherit all session tools

Declares no tool restrictions — inherits every session tool

~123 tokens of context used while enabled, before you invoke anything

Documentation

README · ~8 min read

Exploring APM traces (OpenTelemetry spans)

PostHog captures distributed traces from OpenTelemetry. Each trace is a tree of spans representing a request's path through services.

Disambiguation: This skill is for APM / OpenTelemetry traces. Do not confuse with AI observability traces (agent/model $ai_* events) or logs (posthog:query-logs, posthog:logs-*).

Available tools

ToolPurpose
posthog:query-apm-spansSearch and filter spans (compact list view)
posthog:apm-trace-getGet the full span list for one hex trace_id
posthog:apm-spans-aggregatePer-operation aggregates (count, p50/p95, errors)
posthog:apm-spans-treeCall-tree aggregates per (parent, child) edge

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