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observability-fundamentals

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First principles behind observability — wide events, high cardinality, the core analysis loop, events vs metrics vs logs, and how instrumentation connects to debugging outcomes. Grounds recommendations in first principles rather than tool-specific how-to. Trigger phrases: "what is observability", "w

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git clone https://github.com/honeycombio/agent-skill.git ~/.claude/skills/observability-fundamentals

What is observability-fundamentals?

First principles behind observability — wide events, high cardinality, the core analysis loop, events vs metrics vs logs, and how instrumentation connects to debugging outcomes. Grounds recommendations in first principles rather than tool-specific how-to. Trigger phrases: "what is observability", "why observability", "why Honeycomb", "events vs metrics vs logs", "events vs metrics", "events vs logs", "metrics vs logs", "why wide events", "what is high cardinality", "core analysis loop", "observability vs monitoring", "what is dimensionality", "explain observability", or any conceptual question about observability or why Honeycomb's approach differs from traditional monitoring.

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

~171 tokens of context used while enabled, before you invoke anything

Documentation

README · ~4 min read

Observability Fundamentals

First principles behind Honeycomb's approach to observability. Use this to ground recommendations and answer conceptual questions — for SDK setup and tool-specific guidance, see the otel-instrumentation and query-patterns skills.

Definitions

Observability: The ability to understand and explain any state your system can get into, no matter how novel or complex — by examining what the system produces, without deploying new code for each new question.

Wide event: A flat key-value record capturing the full context of a unit of work — who made the request, which endpoint, cache hit/miss, build version, duration, error

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