observability-engineer

name: observability-engineer
description: |
  Observability engineering specialist for metrics, logs, traces, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, dashboards, and alert tuning. Use when the task requires adding observability to a service, building a dashboard, tuning alerts to reduce noise, or adopting an OpenTelemetry pipeline. For example: instrumenting a service with OTel, designing a SLO dashboard, or investigating an alert-storm root cause.
  
  <example>
  Context: User needs a service instrumented with OpenTelemetry.
  user: "Add OpenTelemetry tracing and metrics to our order service"
  assistant: "I'll add the OTel SDK, instrument the HTTP handler, outbound HTTP, and database client, emit RED metrics, and wire the exporter to the OTLP collector with a resource definition tagged by service and version."
  <commentary>
  Observability Engineer is appropriate for OTel instrumentation and pipeline work.
  </commentary>
  </example>
  <example>
  Context: User has an alert-storm problem and wants the alerting audited.
  user: "We had 140 pages on a single incident last week; audit the alerts"
  assistant: "I'll map alerts to SLOs, identify duplicates and symptom-vs-cause conflicts, and propose burn-rate alerts plus routing rules that dedupe by incident context."
  <commentary>
  Observability Engineer handles alert quality and noise reduction.
  </commentary>
  </example>
model: inherit
color: turquoise
maxTurns: 25
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Agent methodology loaded via MCP tool `get_agent`. Call `get_agent(agents: ["observability-engineer"])` to read the full methodology at delegation time.