# logfire-infrastructure

This skill wires the OpenTelemetry Collector so host, container, Kubernetes and database metrics land in Pydantic Logfire, with no changes to your application code.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 532 installs · ★ 145
- Author: pydantic
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/pydantic/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/logfire-infrastructure/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-16
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/logfire-infrastructure

## What it does

The skill walks the agent through four stages: authenticate and pick the exact project with `whoami`, work out which infrastructure is actually running, write the Collector config, then confirm the data arrived. A reference ships ready configs per source — host, Docker, Kubernetes, database, queue and cache servers, plus AWS and GCP metrics. Each section names the receiver and the snags that bite: Docker socket permissions, API version pinning, `host.docker.internal` versus `localhost`, IAM permissions, and the choice between ADOT and Contrib collector images.

The OpenTelemetry Collector is the whole mechanism here. Logfire ingests standard OTLP, so nothing in your app has to change. This is infrastructure only. Traces, logs and AI-agent spans from the application itself belong to the separate `logfire-instrumentation` skill, and a full setup often runs both.

Validate the config before you start or restart the Collector — `otelcol-contrib validate --config=collector-config.yaml`, or `otelcol validate` for the core distribution. A misspelled receiver or bad indentation otherwise shows up not as an error but as a pipeline that starts, logs nothing useful and drops data silently. If neither binary is on `PATH`, the skill points you at the running container or the command from the image entrypoint, systemd unit or Helm chart.

## Requirements
- Works with: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pydantic/skills --skill logfire-infrastructure -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/logfire-infrastructure/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/logfire-infrastructure/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pydantic/skills --skill logfire-infrastructure -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/logfire-infrastructure/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pydantic/skills --skill logfire-infrastructure -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/logfire-infrastructure/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install pydantic/skills logfire-infrastructure
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/logfire-infrastructure/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pydantic/skills --skill logfire-infrastructure -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/pydantic/skills --path skills/logfire-infrastructure
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/logfire-infrastructure/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pydantic/skills --skill logfire-infrastructure -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/pydantic/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/logfire-infrastructure/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- pull CPU, memory and disk metrics off a host or VM
- monitor running Docker containers
- collect Kubernetes cluster metrics into one backend
- watch Postgres, Redis, MongoDB or Kafka without touching app code
- gather AWS or GCP metrics into Logfire

## Example prompts
- Set up host monitoring and send the metrics to Logfire
- Wire the Docker containers from `docker-compose.yml` into Logfire
- Collect metrics from my Kubernetes cluster with the OpenTelemetry Collector

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: logfire-infrastructure
description: Monitor hosts, Docker containers, Kubernetes clusters, database/queue/cache servers, and cloud-provider metrics with Pydantic Logfire — no application code required. Use this skill whenever the user asks to "monitor my host/server/VM", "monitor my Docker containers", "monitor my Kubernetes cluster", "send infrastructure metrics to Logfire", "watch my database/Postgres/Redis/MongoDB/Kafka", "collect cloud metrics" (AWS/GCP), or mentions the OpenTelemetry Collector in the context of Logfire. This is infrastructure only — for instrumenting APPLICATION CODE (traces, logs, AI/agent spans) use the logfire-instrumentation skill instead.
---

# Monitor Infrastructure with Logfire

Do **not** use this skill for application-level traces, logs, or AI/agent spans — that's `logfire-instrumentation`. The two compose: a full setup often runs both.

## How This Works

The OpenTelemetry Collector ships host, container, cluster, and infrastructure-service metrics to Logfire with **no application code changes** — Logfire is a fully compliant OTel backend and ingests standard OTLP traces, logs, and metrics from it (one narrow exception noted in the [collector reference](./references/collector/host-and-infra-metrics.md)), so the Collector is the entire mechanism. This is optional and is an advanced tool: if the user only wants their app's own traces, `logfire-instrumentation`'s language SDKs are enough on their own.

## Step 1: Authenticate and Select the Exact Project

Do not open, read, or run any infrastructure config file (`docker-compose.yml`, a Kubernetes manifest, or similar) until `whoami` confirms you're authenticated to the right project — nothing about this step requires knowing what's being monitored. Auth is also the one step that can block on a human (browser sign-in), so starting it first means that wait begins on turn one, not after Step 2's detection work.
```
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