aws-observability
A large aws-core skill for monitoring and investigating AWS workloads with Amazon CloudWatch and CloudWatch Omni. It first checks whether a request is about observability and which of the two products applies.
What the skill teaches
A large aws-core skill for monitoring and investigating AWS workloads with Amazon CloudWatch and CloudWatch Omni. It first checks whether a request is about observability and which of the two products applies. For classic CloudWatch it covers Logs Insights, metric, composite and anomaly alarms, custom metrics and embedded metric format, dashboards, X-Ray and ADOT tracing, synthetic canaries, CloudTrail, Application Signals and Dynamic Instrumentation. For CloudWatch Omni it covers SQL over logs and traces, PromQL, dashboards, alerts with Slack notifications, root-cause work on the context graph and evaluating AI agents from traces. It includes Python scripts for Dynamic Instrumentation.
Capabilities
- Write CloudWatch Logs Insights queries and alarms
- Set up X-Ray and ADOT tracing
- Query logs and traces in CloudWatch Omni
- Investigate root causes on the Omni context graph
- Evaluate AI agent quality from traces
About
- Publisher
- Amazon Web Services
Install
What's inside
- assets/cloudwatch/alarm-template.ts
- assets/cloudwatch/otel-config.yaml
- references/cloudwatch-omni/agent-evaluation.md
- references/cloudwatch-omni/alerts.md
- references/cloudwatch-omni/concepts.md
- references/cloudwatch-omni/context-graph.md
- references/cloudwatch-omni/dashboards.md
- references/cloudwatch-omni/intelligence.md
- references/cloudwatch-omni/programmatic-access.md
- references/cloudwatch-omni/query/promql-metrics.md
- references/cloudwatch-omni/query/sql-logs-traces.md
- references/cloudwatch-omni/query/trace-exploration.md
- references/cloudwatch-omni/query/views.md
- references/cloudwatch-omni/service-health.md
- references/cloudwatch/alarms.md
- references/cloudwatch/cloudtrail.md
- references/cloudwatch/dashboards.md
- references/cloudwatch/dynamic-instrumentation.md
- references/cloudwatch/dynamic-instrumentation/breakpoint-creation.md
- references/cloudwatch/dynamic-instrumentation/call-tree-and-directions.md
- references/cloudwatch/dynamic-instrumentation/snapshot-parsing.md
- references/cloudwatch/log-insights.md
- references/cloudwatch/metrics.md
- references/cloudwatch/synthetics.md
- references/cloudwatch/tracing.md
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This skill includes scripts that your agent may run.
Details
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Skill | |
| Tool | Amazon Web Services | |
| Publisher | Amazon Web Services | source |
| Official status | Officialpublished in AWS's own GitHub organisation (github.com/aws) as part of the Agent Toolkit for AWS | source |
| Needs an API key or sign-in | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Includes scripts | Yes | source |
| Platforms | Not stated in its documentation | |
| AI clients | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | source |
| Pricing | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Activity | Last commit Nov 11, 20263,464 GitHub starsDownload data not available (not on npm or PyPI) | source |
| Links | Repository |
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Sources
- Skill file (SKILL.md)github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-awsNov 10, 2026
- README (README.md)github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws · Backs: Official status, PublisherNov 13, 2026
- Licence file (LICENSE)github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws · Backs: LicenceNov 13, 2026
- Folder in the repository (aws-observability)github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 10, 2026
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws · Backs: Activity, LicenceNov 11, 2026
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