--- title: "AWS Observability - Air Market" description: "Something is running in production and you cannot see inside it. This covers setting up logs, metrics, alarms, dashboards and tracing on AWS, wiring a service up so it reports on itself, and capturin…" canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/aws-observability" --- [Air Market](/) / [IT & Ops](/category/ops) / AWS Observability Skill by [Amazon Web Services](/@aws) # AWS Observability See what your running service is doing, without redeploying it ## What this does Something is running in production and you cannot see inside it. This covers setting up logs, metrics, alarms, dashboards and tracing on AWS, wiring a service up so it reports on itself, and capturing what is happening live without pushing a new version. Reach for it when the answer needs data you are not currently collecting. ### Top 3 things it does for you - Set up alarms and dashboards for a service - Query logs to find what went wrong - Add tracing across a request path ## Information **AWS Observability at a glance** | | | | --- | --- | | Kind | Skill | | Publisher | [Amazon Web Services](/@aws) | | Category | [IT & Ops](/category/ops) | | Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents | | Version | 2 | | Size | 492 KB | | Licence | Apache-2.0 | | Repository | [aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws](https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/b33847dd218c6ceef176cd5efdcfff50560faf7d/skills/core-skills/aws-observability) | | GitHub stars | 2,420 (as of Nov 2026) | | Installs | 10,819, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) | ## Security report **Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of AWS Observability and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**. **What AWS Observability's check was run against** | | | | --- | --- | | Commit | b33847dd218c6ceef176cd5efdcfff50560faf7d | | Content hash | 1e26b2ff44f2713c13022a458e6bf8dcfac35092d0e47e5ee9dca30418200451 | | Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/blob/b33847dd218c6ceef176cd5efdcfff50560faf7d/skills/core-skills/aws-observability/SKILL.md) | A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned. [Read the full security report for AWS Observability](/security/aws-observability) ## About AWS Observability This builds, configures, debugs and optimizes AWS observability across CloudWatch - Log Insights, Metrics, Alarms, Dashboards and EMF - along with X-Ray, CloudTrail and ADOT, the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry. It also handles enabling and onboarding services to Application Signals using ADOT auto-instrumentation SDKs. The ground it covers includes Log Insights queries, metric, composite and anomaly alarms, dashboards, custom metrics and EMF, X-Ray tracing and sampling, ADOT collector configuration, CloudTrail auditing, and end-to-end Application Signals enablement - the CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on, CloudWatch Agent IAM, OTLP endpoints, ServiceEvents and Dynamic Instrumentation, including breakpoints and snapshots, live data capture in a running service, and debugging without redeploying. It applies to CloudWatch, alarms, dashboards, EMF, X-Ray, traces, CloudTrail, ADOT, monitoring and synthetics or canaries, or to instrumenting a service for Application Signals. It is not for application logging or security threat detection. ## What's inside - SKILL.md - instructions - assets/alarm-template.ts - script - assets/otel-config.yaml - data - references/alarms.md - reference - references/application-signals-cicd-metadata.md - reference - references/application-signals-onboarding.md - reference - references/appsignals-guides/ec2-dotnet.md - reference - references/appsignals-guides/ec2-java.md - reference - references/appsignals-guides/ec2-nodejs.md - reference - references/appsignals-guides/ec2-python.md - reference - references/appsignals-guides/ecs-dotnet.md - reference - references/appsignals-guides/ecs-java.md - reference - references/appsignals-guides/ecs-nodejs.md - reference - references/appsignals-guides/ecs-python.md - reference - references/appsignals-guides/eks-dotnet.md - reference - references/appsignals-guides/eks-java.md - reference - references/appsignals-guides/eks-nodejs.md - reference - references/appsignals-guides/eks-python.md - reference - references/appsignals-guides/lambda-dotnet.md - reference - references/appsignals-guides/lambda-java.md - reference - references/appsignals-guides/lambda-nodejs.md - reference - references/appsignals-guides/lambda-python.md - reference - references/cloudtrail.md - reference - references/dashboards.md - reference - references/dynamic-instrumentation.md - reference - references/dynamic-instrumentation/breakpoint-creation.md - reference - references/dynamic-instrumentation/call-tree-and-directions.md - reference - references/dynamic-instrumentation/snapshot-parsing.md - reference - references/log-insights.md - reference - references/metrics.md - reference - references/synthetics.md - reference - references/tracing.md - reference - references/troubleshooting.md - reference - scripts/di_app_signals_client.py - script - scripts/di_capture.py - script - scripts/di_constants.py - script - scripts/di_crud_rendering.py - script - scripts/di_crud_tools.py - script - scripts/di_error_translation.py - script - scripts/di_formatting.py - script - scripts/di_gateway.py - script - scripts/di_instrumentation.py - script - scripts/di_location.py - script - scripts/di_logs_client.py - script - scripts/di_region.py - script - scripts/di_result.py - script - scripts/di_session.py - script - scripts/di_snapshot_parsing.py - script - scripts/di_snapshot_queries.py - script - scripts/di_snapshot_rendering.py - script - scripts/di_snapshot_tools.py - script - scripts/di_snapshots.py - script - scripts/di_status_assessment.py - script - scripts/di_status_rendering.py - script - scripts/di_status_tools.py - script - scripts/di_validation.py - script ## Questions ### Is AWS Observability safe to install? AIR scanned this exact version of AWS Observability and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit b33847dd218c, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/aws-observability. ### How do I install AWS Observability? Open https://airmarket.ai/app/aws-observability on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/b33847dd218c6ceef176cd5efdcfff50560faf7d/skills/core-skills/aws-observability. Install from that link, not the branch. ## Related on Air Market - [More IT & Ops listings](/category/ops) - [Everything by Amazon Web Services](/@aws) --- Canonical URL: