observability-wiki
Retrieve observability wiki concepts. Use when the question is about observability: Telemetry types and their trade-offs; Instrumentation practice; Debugging methodology; AI agent & LLM observability; Observability data systems; Sociotechnical & developer feedback loops. Scan concepts.json in this skill folder. Read only matching notes. Follow basename links hop by hop. Do not load every note. Do not answer from fleeting/ notes.
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- skills/observability-wiki/SKILL.md
- skills/observability-wiki/actionable-paging-hygiene.md
- skills/observability-wiki/actionable-vs-vanity-metrics.md
- skills/observability-wiki/adaptive-liveness-detection-vs-fixed-timeouts.md
- skills/observability-wiki/alert-fatigue-and-normalized-deviance.md
- skills/observability-wiki/alert-routing-and-notification-management.md
- skills/observability-wiki/annotation-volume-cap-protects-structural-span-data.md
- skills/observability-wiki/attributing-shared-service-load-to-callers.md
- skills/observability-wiki/audit-for-unjustifiably-disabled-telemetry.md
- skills/observability-wiki/automatic-vs-custom-instrumentation.md
- skills/observability-wiki/bare-metrics-need-comparison-context.md
- skills/observability-wiki/baseline-normal-system-behavior.md
- skills/observability-wiki/batch-export-size-and-time-triggers.md
- skills/observability-wiki/batching-obscures-per-request-trace-attribution.md
- skills/observability-wiki/bayesian-estimation-of-sli-values.md
- skills/observability-wiki/binary-search-isolation.md
- skills/observability-wiki/bitmap-encoding-for-low-cardinality-columns.md
- skills/observability-wiki/black-box-vs-annotation-based-tracing.md
- skills/observability-wiki/calibrated-confidence-in-hypothesis-statements.md
- skills/observability-wiki/calibrated-trust-in-known-instrument-lies.md
- skills/observability-wiki/cardinality-explosion-in-tsdbs.md
- skills/observability-wiki/cardinality.md
- skills/observability-wiki/centralized-crash-report-and-coredump-collection.md
- skills/observability-wiki/centralized-log-to-metric-conversion.md
- skills/observability-wiki/change-correlation-in-debugging.md
- skills/observability-wiki/chaos-engineering-as-observability-stress-test.md
- skills/observability-wiki/clock-skew-in-distributed-trace-timelines.md
- skills/observability-wiki/closing-telemetry-gaps-from-past-incidents.md
- skills/observability-wiki/collection-side-sampling-controls-write-throughput.md
- skills/observability-wiki/concepts.json
- skills/observability-wiki/confirmation-bias-in-debugging.md
- skills/observability-wiki/context-propagation.md
- skills/observability-wiki/continuous-profiling.md
- skills/observability-wiki/core-analysis-loop.md
- skills/observability-wiki/correlating-telemetry-systems-via-shared-trace-id.md
- skills/observability-wiki/correlation-vs-causation-in-debugging.md
- skills/observability-wiki/cpu-flame-graphs.md
- skills/observability-wiki/cross-tier-observability-gaps.md
- skills/observability-wiki/dashboard-glanceability-constraint.md
- skills/observability-wiki/dashboard-role-determines-design.md
- skills/observability-wiki/debug-endpoints-for-runtime-introspection.md
- skills/observability-wiki/debugging-from-first-principles-vs-tacit-knowledge.md
- skills/observability-wiki/deciding-whether-to-create-a-span.md
- skills/observability-wiki/decoupled-ingestion-and-query.md
- skills/observability-wiki/deployment-markers-and-settling-period.md
- skills/observability-wiki/deriving-multiple-views-from-one-event-stream.md
- skills/observability-wiki/developer-operator-telemetry-mismatch.md
- skills/observability-wiki/dimensionality.md
- skills/observability-wiki/distributed-tracing-for-troubleshooting.md
- skills/observability-wiki/distribution-to-example-drill-down.md
- skills/observability-wiki/ebpf-as-instrumentation-accelerator.md
- skills/observability-wiki/emergent-failure-vs-broken-component-hunting.md
- skills/observability-wiki/eval-monitoring-feedback-loop.md
- skills/observability-wiki/event-granularity-vs-time-bucket-aggregation.md
- skills/observability-wiki/exception-collector-as-rollout-health-signal.md
- skills/observability-wiki/exception-slug-for-error-attribution.md
- skills/observability-wiki/explicit-vs-implicit-feedback-telemetry.md
- skills/observability-wiki/expose-compensating-behavior-instead-of-hiding-it.md
- skills/observability-wiki/fixed-counters-vs-profiling-vs-tracing.md
- skills/observability-wiki/four-golden-signals.md
- skills/observability-wiki/graceful-log-degradation-and-retention-tiers.md
- skills/observability-wiki/happened-before-join.md
- skills/observability-wiki/head-vs-tail-sampling.md
- skills/observability-wiki/heatmaps-vs-percentiles-for-variance.md
- skills/observability-wiki/helpful-alert-criteria.md
- skills/observability-wiki/high-cardinality-outlier-isolation.md
- skills/observability-wiki/horses-vs-zebras.md
- skills/observability-wiki/hypothesis-testing-with-real-data.md
- skills/observability-wiki/identifier-recycling-causes-silent-telemetry-corruption.md
- skills/observability-wiki/in-kernel-aggregation-over-event-streaming.md
- skills/observability-wiki/index-storage-cost-rivals-raw-data.md
- skills/observability-wiki/inferring-dependencies-from-trace-annotations.md
- skills/observability-wiki/inline-instrumentation-over-wrapper-methods.md
- skills/observability-wiki/instrumentation-litmus-test.md
- skills/observability-wiki/known-unknowns-vs-unknown-unknowns.md
- skills/observability-wiki/latency-percentiles-not-averages.md
- skills/observability-wiki/layered-telemetry-signal-selection.md
- skills/observability-wiki/llm-inference-goodput.md
- skills/observability-wiki/llm-inference-latency-metrics.md
- skills/observability-wiki/llm-request-and-config-logging.md
- skills/observability-wiki/llm-token-and-cost-metrics.md
- skills/observability-wiki/local-buffering-with-remote-fidelity-control.md
- skills/observability-wiki/log-event-selection-and-severity.md
- skills/observability-wiki/low-cost-instrumentation-with-statsd.md
- skills/observability-wiki/main-span-flag-convention.md
- skills/observability-wiki/materialized-views-for-precomputed-aggregates.md
- skills/observability-wiki/metric-anatomy.md
- skills/observability-wiki/mitigate-before-root-causing.md
- skills/observability-wiki/model-flop-and-bandwidth-utilization.md
- skills/observability-wiki/modeling-any-workflow-as-a-trace.md
- skills/observability-wiki/monotonic-clock-for-duration-measurement.md
- skills/observability-wiki/non-round-number-sampling-rates.md
- skills/observability-wiki/observability-definition.md
- skills/observability-wiki/observability-tool-selection-by-scenario.md
- skills/observability-wiki/observability-vs-debugging-granularity.md
- skills/observability-wiki/out-of-band-telemetry-collection.md
- skills/observability-wiki/outcome-completion-rate-as-ux-proxy.md
- skills/observability-wiki/outlier-detection-vs-threshold-alerting.md
- skills/observability-wiki/percentile-aggregates-misleading-with-heterogeneous-population.md
- skills/observability-wiki/pivot-tracing-advice.md
- skills/observability-wiki/pivot-tracing-agent.md
- skills/observability-wiki/pivot-tracing-baggage-branch-rejoin.md
- skills/observability-wiki/pivot-tracing-baggage.md
- skills/observability-wiki/pivot-tracing-end-to-end-latency-diagnosis.md
- skills/observability-wiki/pivot-tracing-hadoop-instrumentation.md
- skills/observability-wiki/pivot-tracing-hdfs-replica-selection-bug.md
- skills/observability-wiki/pivot-tracing-instrumentation-overhead.md
- skills/observability-wiki/pivot-tracing-query-language.md
- skills/observability-wiki/pivot-tracing-query-optimizations.md
- skills/observability-wiki/pivot-tracing-tracepoints.md
- skills/observability-wiki/pivot-tracing.md
- skills/observability-wiki/pre-aggregation-is-irreversible.md
- skills/observability-wiki/production-cannot-be-simulated-in-staging.md
- skills/observability-wiki/profiling-vs-tracing-complementary.md
- skills/observability-wiki/proxy-mediated-success-and-latency-reporting.md
- skills/observability-wiki/pull-based-metrics-collection.md
- skills/observability-wiki/purposes-of-monitoring.md
- skills/observability-wiki/quantitative-encoding-accuracy-pitfalls.md
- skills/observability-wiki/recognition-primed-diagnosis.md
- skills/observability-wiki/record-observations-during-investigation.md
- skills/observability-wiki/resulting-bias-in-postmortem-evaluation.md
- skills/observability-wiki/row-vs-column-storage-tradeoff.md
- skills/observability-wiki/rule-of-five-for-small-sample-confidence.md
- skills/observability-wiki/runbooks-value-and-limits.md
- skills/observability-wiki/runtime-fault-detection-instrumentation-taxonomy.md
- skills/observability-wiki/runtime-invariant-assertions-as-embedded-oracle.md
- skills/observability-wiki/sampling-rate-selection-strategies.md
- skills/observability-wiki/schema-evolution-for-wide-events.md
- skills/observability-wiki/self-service-telemetry-access.md
- skills/observability-wiki/silent-model-version-drift.md
- skills/observability-wiki/single-trace-view-misses-cross-request-contention.md
- skills/observability-wiki/skip-indexes-for-high-cardinality-lookups.md
- skills/observability-wiki/smoothing-and-anomaly-detection-techniques.md
- skills/observability-wiki/span-links-vs-parent-child.md
- skills/observability-wiki/sparklines-for-inline-trend-context.md
- skills/observability-wiki/stable-vs-dynamic-instrumentation-points.md
- skills/observability-wiki/stack-unwinding-methods.md
- skills/observability-wiki/statistical-threshold-alerting-limits.md
- skills/observability-wiki/streetlight-effect-in-instrumentation-priorities.md
- skills/observability-wiki/structured-events-as-observability-substrate.md
- skills/observability-wiki/structured-logging.md
- skills/observability-wiki/symptom-based-vs-cause-based-alerting.md
- skills/observability-wiki/systematic-troubleshooting-process.md
- skills/observability-wiki/systemic-vs-random-error-in-telemetry.md
- skills/observability-wiki/telemetry-definition-and-scope.md
- skills/observability-wiki/telemetry-naming-conventions.md
- skills/observability-wiki/telemetry-pipeline-agent-gateway-architecture.md
- skills/observability-wiki/telemetry-pipeline-stages.md
- skills/observability-wiki/telemetry-premortem.md
- skills/observability-wiki/telemetry-quality-failure-modes.md
- skills/observability-wiki/three-pillars-vs-wide-events-model.md
- skills/observability-wiki/tiered-storage-and-log-retention.md
- skills/observability-wiki/time-partitioned-columnar-storage.md
- skills/observability-wiki/time-series-alert-rule-evaluation.md
- skills/observability-wiki/timings-as-attributes-not-child-spans.md
- skills/observability-wiki/trace-anatomy-and-spans.md
- skills/observability-wiki/training-serving-skew.md
- skills/observability-wiki/turnaround-time-must-match-failure-mode.md
- skills/observability-wiki/unsampled-instrumentation-overhead-must-be-near-zero.md
- skills/observability-wiki/user-behavior-adaptation-as-drift-cause.md
- skills/observability-wiki/vertical-vs-horizontal-scaling-for-observability-stores.md
- skills/observability-wiki/wide-event-attribute-checklist.md
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