# observability-llm-obs

Reads LLM telemetry that already sits in Elastic and answers questions about latency, errors, token spend, guardrail hits and agent call chains.

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- Author: elastic
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- Source: https://github.com/elastic/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/observability/llm-obs/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
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## What it does

Point this skill at a deployment that already holds LLM telemetry, then ask it how the model behaved. Four areas are covered: request speed and failure rate, token use and cost, answer quality with guardrail events, and the way an agent's tool calls were orchestrated. Which ingestion path exists — APM/OTLP traces, or metrics and logs from an Elastic LLM integration — is something the skill finds out first instead of assuming.

Every query goes through the `elastic` CLI, version 0.2 or newer, with `es` and `kb` support. If the CLI is absent, the cluster is out of reach. The floor is Elasticsearch 8.11+ or Serverless. Time-series queries over integration metrics need `TS` and `TRANGE`; below Stack 9.4 the skill falls back to `FROM` with `BUCKET`. SLO lookups and alert rules run through Kibana.

Call chains can only be rebuilt from traces, using `trace.id`, `span.id` and `parent.id`. Pre-aggregated integration metrics carry no step order, so a deployment holding only those cannot answer an orchestration question at all.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elastic/agent-skills --skill observability-llm-obs -a claude-code
```
```bash
npx skills add elastic/agent-skills --skill llm-obs -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elastic/agent-skills --skill llm-obs -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elastic/agent-skills --skill llm-obs -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install elastic/agent-skills llm-obs
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elastic/agent-skills --skill llm-obs -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/elastic/agent-skills --path skills/observability/llm-obs
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elastic/agent-skills --skill llm-obs -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/elastic/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/observability/llm-obs/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Trace which model is slowest across OTLP spans
- Find the step where a multi-tool agent run loses time
- Check whether a cost field exists before quoting a spend figure
- Catch guardrail blocks and unusual finish reasons
- Connect an LLM issue to the alert rule that should have fired

## Example prompts
- Which model had the worst latency in the traces?
- How many tokens did the agent burn, and is cost instrumented?
- Rebuild the call chain for that run and point at the slowest span

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: observability-llm-obs
description: >
  Answer questions about LLM and agentic-application behavior from data already ingested
  into Elastic: latency and error rate, token and cost utilization, response quality
  and guardrail events, and agentic call-chain orchestration. Use when the user asks
  about LLM monitoring, GenAI observability, token spend or AI cost, model latency,
  prompt or guardrail failures, or how an agent's tool-call chain executed.
compatibility: >
  Requires the `elastic` CLI (>= 0.2) with `es` and `kb` support, and an Elasticsearch
  deployment holding LLM telemetry from APM/OTLP traces or an Elastic LLM integration.
  Base floor is Elasticsearch 8.11+ or Serverless. The time-series path for integration
  metrics needs `TS` (Stack GA 9.4) and `TRANGE` (Stack GA 9.3); both are GA on Serverless.
  Below Stack 9.4 fall back to `FROM` with `BUCKET`. SLO and alerting lookups require
  Kibana. No Kibana UI is required.
metadata:
  author: elastic
  version: 0.3.1
  universal: true
---

# LLM and Agentic Observability

Answer questions about monitoring LLMs and agentic components using **data actually ingested into Elastic** — nothing
else. The four questions this skill answers are LLM performance, cost and token utilization, response quality, and call
chaining or agentic workflow orchestration.

A given deployment typically uses **one or more** ingestion paths: APM/OTLP traces, and/or integration metrics and logs.
Which one exists is a discovery result, not an assumption — never assume both are present. For ES|QL syntax, commands,
and query patterns, use the **elasticsearch-esql** skill. For service-level latency and error triage that is not
LLM-specific, use the **observability-sre-triage** skill.

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## Environment Configuration

This skill executes Elasticsearch operations through the `elastic` CLI. If the
[`elastic` CLI](https://github.com/elastic/cli#configuration) is not installed, tell the user what it is needed for. Do
not guess credentials, call the HTTP API directly, or attempt other workarounds.

This skill references operations in HTTP-shorthand form (e.g., `GET /`, `GET /_cat/indices`, `GET /{index}/_mapping`,
`GET /{index}/_settings/index.mode`, `POST /_query`). The [Operations](#operations) table at the end of this document
maps each shorthand to the equivalent `elastic` CLI command — always use the CLI rather than calling the HTTP API
directly.

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### Analysis without cluster access

The CLI check above gates _querying the cluster_ — it does not gate analysis. When the user has already supplied the
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