{"slug":"azure-observability-investigator","title":"azure-observability-investigator","summary":"Use this skill for Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, alerting, KQL triage, telemetry-gap analysis, workbooks, or operator-grade incident and posture investigations.","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T21:51:01.420192Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic","stars":24,"forks":3,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T13:00:24Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: azure-observability-investigator\ndescription: Use this skill for Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, alerting, KQL triage, telemetry-gap analysis, workbooks, or operator-grade incident and posture investigations.\nallowed-tools: Read Grep Glob WebFetch\nmetadata:\nauthor: github: VincentChuWaiChow\nversion: 0.1.2\nupdated: \"2026-06-05\"\ncategory: observability</h2>\n<h1>Azure Observability Investigator</h1>\n<h2>Purpose</h2>\n<p>Investigate Azure operational health using evidence from metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and observability configuration before jumping to root-cause claims.</p>\n<p>This skill is for operator-grade Azure monitoring work across:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Azure Monitor metrics and logs,</li>\n<li>Log Analytics workspace design and query posture,</li>\n<li>Application Insights telemetry and dependency signals,</li>\n<li>alert rules, action groups, and alert processing rules,</li>\n<li>workbook or Grafana-backed operational visibility,</li>\n<li>KQL-based triage,</li>\n<li>telemetry blind spots, noisy alerts, and missing-signal investigations.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>When to use</h2>\n<p>Use this skill when the user asks for:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Azure Monitor or Application Insights incident investigation,</li>\n<li>noisy, duplicate, stale, or low-value alert review,</li>\n<li>Log Analytics or KQL triage help,</li>\n<li>missing telemetry or observability-gap analysis,</li>\n<li>workspace or signal-placement review,</li>\n<li>dashboard, workbook, or operational reporting critique,</li>\n<li>recommended next diagnostic steps for a recent failure.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Do not use this skill as a substitute for:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>full application debugging with code changes,</li>\n<li>SIEM engineering or Microsoft Sentinel content design,</li>\n<li>resource-health-first outage triage when the main question is whether Azure itself is degraded,</li>\n<li>instrumentation implementation details unless the user asks for that next.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Lean operating rules</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Prefer Microsoft Learn documentation through the user's configured documentation MCP, then sampled read-only Azure evidence when available, then sanitized user evidence.</li>\n<li>Separate confirmed facts from inference. If state was not queried or shown, say so.</li>\n<li>Challenge broad access, broad scope, destructive changes, and hand-wavy production claims.</li>\n<li>Keep the answer scoped, reversible, least-privilege, and explicit about blockers or unknowns.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>References</h2>\n<p>Load these only when needed:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"references/observability-investigation-operations.md\">Azure Observability Investigation Operations</a> — use for current service behavior, common failure modes, hard design rules, verification targets, and push-back conditions.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/safety-checklist.md\">Safety checklist</a> — use for evidence labels, risk gates, mutation boundaries, approval rules, credential boundaries, and current-state caveats.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/mcp-and-evidence.md\">MCP and evidence path</a> — use when choosing live Azure evidence, confirming Microsoft MCP capability, or switching to documentation mode.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/workflow-and-output.md\">Workflow and output contract</a> — use when executing the full review, applying stress checks, or formatting the final answer.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/official-sources.md\">Official sources</a> — use when you need the detailed Microsoft documentation list or source notes.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Response minimum</h2>\n<p>Return, at minimum:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>the scoped target and evidence level,</li>\n<li>the main risks or control gaps,</li>\n<li>the safest next actions,</li>\n<li>the assumptions or blockers that prevent stronger conclusions.</li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"metadata.json","sizeBytes":1709,"isText":true},{"path":"references/mcp-and-evidence.md","sizeBytes":1238,"isText":true},{"path":"references/observability-investigation-operations.md","sizeBytes":4709,"isText":true},{"path":"references/official-sources.md","sizeBytes":2414,"isText":true},{"path":"references/safety-checklist.md","sizeBytes":1648,"isText":true},{"path":"references/workflow-and-output.md","sizeBytes":1615,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":3368,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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