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tessl install github:jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills --skill exa-observability

github.com/jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills

Set up comprehensive observability for Exa integrations with metrics, traces, and alerts. Use when implementing monitoring for Exa operations, setting up dashboards, or configuring alerting for Exa integration health. Trigger with phrases like "exa monitoring", "exa metrics", "exa observability", "monitor exa", "exa alerts", "exa tracing".

Review Score

88%

Validation Score

12/16

Implementation Score

88%

Activation Score

90%

Exa Observability

Overview

Set up comprehensive observability for Exa integrations.

Prerequisites

  • Prometheus or compatible metrics backend
  • OpenTelemetry SDK installed
  • Grafana or similar dashboarding tool
  • AlertManager configured

Metrics Collection

Key Metrics

MetricTypeDescription
exa_requests_totalCounterTotal API requests
exa_request_duration_secondsHistogramRequest latency
exa_errors_totalCounterError count by type
exa_rate_limit_remainingGaugeRate limit headroom

Prometheus Metrics

import { Registry, Counter, Histogram, Gauge } from 'prom-client';

const registry = new Registry();

const requestCounter = new Counter({
  name: 'exa_requests_total',
  help: 'Total Exa API requests',
  labelNames: ['method', 'status'],
  registers: [registry],
});

const requestDuration = new Histogram({
  name: 'exa_request_duration_seconds',
  help: 'Exa request duration',
  labelNames: ['method'],
  buckets: [0.05, 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2.5, 5],
  registers: [registry],
});

const errorCounter = new Counter({
  name: 'exa_errors_total',
  help: 'Exa errors by type',
  labelNames: ['error_type'],
  registers: [registry],
});

Instrumented Client

async function instrumentedRequest<T>(
  method: string,
  operation: () => Promise<T>
): Promise<T> {
  const timer = requestDuration.startTimer({ method });

  try {
    const result = await operation();
    requestCounter.inc({ method, status: 'success' });
    return result;
  } catch (error: any) {
    requestCounter.inc({ method, status: 'error' });
    errorCounter.inc({ error_type: error.code || 'unknown' });
    throw error;
  } finally {
    timer();
  }
}

Distributed Tracing

OpenTelemetry Setup

import { trace, SpanStatusCode } from '@opentelemetry/api';

const tracer = trace.getTracer('exa-client');

async function tracedExaCall<T>(
  operationName: string,
  operation: () => Promise<T>
): Promise<T> {
  return tracer.startActiveSpan(`exa.${operationName}`, async (span) => {
    try {
      const result = await operation();
      span.setStatus({ code: SpanStatusCode.OK });
      return result;
    } catch (error: any) {
      span.setStatus({ code: SpanStatusCode.ERROR, message: error.message });
      span.recordException(error);
      throw error;
    } finally {
      span.end();
    }
  });
}

Logging Strategy

Structured Logging

import pino from 'pino';

const logger = pino({
  name: 'exa',
  level: process.env.LOG_LEVEL || 'info',
});

function logExaOperation(
  operation: string,
  data: Record<string, any>,
  duration: number
) {
  logger.info({
    service: 'exa',
    operation,
    duration_ms: duration,
    ...data,
  });
}

Alert Configuration

Prometheus AlertManager Rules

# exa_alerts.yaml
groups:
  - name: exa_alerts
    rules:
      - alert: ExaHighErrorRate
        expr: |
          rate(exa_errors_total[5m]) /
          rate(exa_requests_total[5m]) > 0.05
        for: 5m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: "Exa error rate > 5%"

      - alert: ExaHighLatency
        expr: |
          histogram_quantile(0.95,
            rate(exa_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])
          ) > 2
        for: 5m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: "Exa P95 latency > 2s"

      - alert: ExaDown
        expr: up{job="exa"} == 0
        for: 1m
        labels:
          severity: critical
        annotations:
          summary: "Exa integration is down"

Dashboard

Grafana Panel Queries

{
  "panels": [
    {
      "title": "Exa Request Rate",
      "targets": [{
        "expr": "rate(exa_requests_total[5m])"
      }]
    },
    {
      "title": "Exa Latency P50/P95/P99",
      "targets": [{
        "expr": "histogram_quantile(0.5, rate(exa_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m]))"
      }]
    }
  ]
}

Instructions

Step 1: Set Up Metrics Collection

Implement Prometheus counters, histograms, and gauges for key operations.

Step 2: Add Distributed Tracing

Integrate OpenTelemetry for end-to-end request tracing.

Step 3: Configure Structured Logging

Set up JSON logging with consistent field names.

Step 4: Create Alert Rules

Define Prometheus alerting rules for error rates and latency.

Output

  • Metrics collection enabled
  • Distributed tracing configured
  • Structured logging implemented
  • Alert rules deployed

Error Handling

IssueCauseSolution
Missing metricsNo instrumentationWrap client calls
Trace gapsMissing propagationCheck context headers
Alert stormsWrong thresholdsTune alert rules
High cardinalityToo many labelsReduce label values

Examples

Quick Metrics Endpoint

app.get('/metrics', async (req, res) => {
  res.set('Content-Type', registry.contentType);
  res.send(await registry.metrics());
});

Resources

  • Prometheus Best Practices
  • OpenTelemetry Documentation
  • Exa Observability Guide

Next Steps

For incident response, see exa-incident-runbook.