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dt-obs-hosts

Host and process metrics including CPU, memory, disk, network, containers, and process-level telemetry. Use when analyzing infrastructure health, resource utilization, process consumption, or host discovery. Also use when building timeseries queries for host metrics that feed into analytical workflows like anomaly detection, forecasting, or seasonality analysis. Trigger: "show hosts", "CPU usage", "memory utilization", "disk space", "high CPU", "host with most free disk", "top hosts by CPU", "top processes by memory", "Linux hosts in AWS", "what databases are running", "infrastructure costs by cost center", "hosts running EOL Java", "container monitoring", "listening ports", "process resource consumption", "CPU forecast", "memory anomaly", "host seasonality". Do NOT use for explaining existing queries, product documentation questions, Kubernetes pod/workload queries (use dt-obs-kubernetes), AWS cloud resource inventory (use dt-obs-aws), or service-level metrics (use dt-obs-services).

75

Quality

92%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

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Quality

Content

85%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

This is a strong, well-structured skill that provides comprehensive coverage of host infrastructure monitoring with executable DQL queries and clear analytical workflows. Its main strength is the excellent progressive disclosure pattern and highly actionable query examples. The primary weakness is moderate verbosity — some sections explain things Claude already knows (well-known ports, common technologies) and the 'When to Use' section duplicates the frontmatter trigger list.

Suggestions

Remove or significantly trim the 'When to Use This Skill' section since it duplicates the frontmatter description triggers

Remove explanatory lists that Claude already knows (well-known ports, common technologies, workload types) or reduce them to inline hints only when they affect query construction

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The skill is comprehensive but includes some unnecessary content like listing well-known ports (80, 443, 22, etc.), explaining common technologies, and the extensive 'When to Use This Skill' section that largely duplicates the frontmatter description. The alert thresholds section and best practices are useful but some items (like byte conversion) are things Claude already knows. Overall mostly efficient but could be tightened by ~20-30%.

2 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides fully executable DQL queries for every workflow, with concrete metric names, field references, and filter patterns. The queries are copy-paste ready with real field names like `dt.host.cpu.usage`, `dt.smartscape.host`, and specific functions like `getNodeName()`. The analytical workflow section gives precise tool selection criteria and parameter guidance (e.g., novelty type selection, forecast horizon vs historical window).

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Multi-step analytical workflows (anomaly detection, forecasting, seasonality) are clearly sequenced with explicit steps (construct query → pass to tool → format response). The skill includes clear decision points (choosing between adaptive-anomaly-detector vs timeseries-novelty-detection), scope boundaries (service-level vs host-level), and response construction guidelines. The troubleshooting table provides error recovery paths.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Excellent progressive disclosure structure: the main skill covers 80% of use cases with inline queries, then clearly signals when to load each reference file with specific trigger conditions. References are one level deep, well-organized into four topical files, and linked with both section anchors and descriptive context. The 'When to Load References' section is particularly well-structured with clear conditional triggers.

3 / 3

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Passed

Description

100%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

This is an excellent skill description that excels across all dimensions. It provides comprehensive capability enumeration, extensive natural-language trigger terms, clear 'Use when' and 'Do NOT use' guidance, and explicit references to alternative skills for boundary cases. The description is well-structured for disambiguation in a large skill library.

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Specificity

Lists multiple specific concrete actions and domains: CPU, memory, disk, network, containers, process-level telemetry, host discovery, timeseries queries, anomaly detection, forecasting, and seasonality analysis. Very comprehensive enumeration of capabilities.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (host and process metrics including CPU, memory, disk, network, containers, process-level telemetry) and 'when' (explicit 'Use when' clause plus extensive trigger list). Additionally includes explicit 'Do NOT use' guidance with alternative skill references, which further strengthens completeness.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Excellent coverage of natural trigger terms users would actually say, including 'show hosts', 'CPU usage', 'memory utilization', 'disk space', 'high CPU', 'top hosts by CPU', 'top processes by memory', 'container monitoring', 'CPU forecast', 'memory anomaly', and many more realistic user phrases.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Highly distinctive with explicit boundary-setting via 'Do NOT use' clauses that reference specific alternative skills (dt-obs-kubernetes, dt-obs-aws, dt-obs-services). This clearly carves out a niche for host-level metrics and actively prevents conflicts with adjacent skills.

3 / 3

Total

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Passed

Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation11 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository
Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai
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