--- title: "Plugin Analytics Instrumentation Skill - Air Market" description: "When you want to know how people use your Backstage plugin, you have to add event tracking - and decide which clicks are actually worth recording. This covers adding, reviewing and extending that eve…" canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/plugin-analytics-instrumentation" --- [Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Plugin Analytics Instrumentation Skill Skill by [Backstage](/@backstage) # Plugin Analytics Instrumentation Skill Decide what is worth tracking in a plugin, then track it ## What this does When you want to know how people use your Backstage plugin, you have to add event tracking - and decide which clicks are actually worth recording. This covers adding, reviewing and extending that event capture in your components, and testing that it behaves. Reach for it when instrumenting a plugin or reviewing instrumentation someone else added. ### Top 3 things it does for you - Add event capture to plugin components - Judge whether an interaction deserves an event - Review existing instrumentation ## Information **Plugin Analytics Instrumentation Skill at a glance** | | | | --- | --- | | Kind | Skill | | Publisher | [Backstage](/@backstage) | | Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) | | Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents | | Size | 10 KB | | Licence | Apache-2.0 | | Repository | [backstage/backstage](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/tree/95f31b18ec946c3a3e72633dea469a319e97dfe5/docs/.well-known/skills/plugin-analytics-instrumentation) | | GitHub stars | 34,227 (as of Nov 2026) | | Installs | 6, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) | ## Security report **Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Plugin Analytics Instrumentation Skill and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**. **What Plugin Analytics Instrumentation Skill's check was run against** | | | | --- | --- | | Commit | 95f31b18ec946c3a3e72633dea469a319e97dfe5 | | Content hash | 918de5f0956861427a8a0f3a8284c9cd133c73781147c8f7c96be0d337b19540 | | Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/blob/95f31b18ec946c3a3e72633dea469a319e97dfe5/docs/.well-known/skills/plugin-analytics-instrumentation/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 Plugin Analytics Instrumentation Skill](/security/plugin-analytics-instrumentation) ## About Plugin Analytics Instrumentation Skill Instrumenting a Backstage frontend plugin with analytics events using the Backstage Analytics API. It applies when you are adding, reviewing or extending event capture with captureEvent and AnalyticsContext in plugin components, deciding whether a given interaction warrants an event at all, or writing tests for analytics behavior. ## What's inside - SKILL.md - instructions ## Questions ### Is Plugin Analytics Instrumentation Skill safe to install? AIR scanned this exact version of Plugin Analytics Instrumentation Skill and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 95f31b18ec94, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/plugin-analytics-instrumentation. ### How do I install Plugin Analytics Instrumentation Skill? Open https://airmarket.ai/app/plugin-analytics-instrumentation 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/backstage/backstage/tree/95f31b18ec946c3a3e72633dea469a319e97dfe5/docs/.well-known/skills/plugin-analytics-instrumentation. Install from that link, not the branch. ## Related on Air Market - [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools) - [Everything by Backstage](/@backstage) --- Canonical URL: