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Imported from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace (skills/.curated/creating-alerting-rules/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill creating-alerting-rules. Copyright stays with the author (MIT).

Alerting Rule Creator

Name: creating-alerting-rules
Author: jeremylongshore

Create production-ready alerting rules for Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty with intelligent thresholds, routing policies, and escalation procedures.

Overview

This skill automates the creation of comprehensive alerting rules, reducing the manual effort required for performance monitoring. It guides you through defining alert categories, setting intelligent thresholds, and configuring routing and escalation policies. The skill also helps generate runbooks and establish alert testing procedures.

How It Works

Identify Alert Category: Determines the type of alert to create (e.g., latency, error rate, resource utilization).
Define Thresholds: Sets appropriate thresholds to avoid alert fatigue and ensure timely notification of performance issues.
Configure Routing and Escalation: Establishes routing policies to direct alerts to the appropriate teams and escalation policies for timely response.
Generate Runbook: Creates a basic runbook with steps to diagnose and resolve the alerted issue.

When to Use This Skill

This skill activates when you need to:

Implement performance monitoring for a new service.
Refine existing alerting rules to reduce false positives.
Create alerts for specific performance metrics, such as latency or error rate.

Examples

Example 1: Setting up Latency Alerts

User request: "create latency alerts for the payment service"

The skill will:

Prompt for latency thresholds (e.g., warning and critical).
Configure alerts to trigger when latency exceeds defined thresholds.

Example 2: Creating Error Rate Alerts

User request: "set up alerting for error rate increases in the API gateway"

The skill will:

Request the baseline error rate and acceptable deviation.
Configure alerts to trigger when the error rate exceeds the defined deviation from the baseline.

Best Practices

Threshold Selection: Use historical data and statistical analysis to determine appropriate thresholds that minimize false positives and negatives.
Alert Routing: Route alerts to the appropriate teams or individuals based on the alert category and severity.
Runbook Creation: Generate or link to detailed runbooks that provide clear instructions for diagnosing and resolving the alerted issue.

Integration

This skill can be integrated with other Claude Code plugins to automate incident response workflows. For example, it can trigger automated remediation actions or create tickets in an issue tracking system.

Prerequisites

Appropriate file access permissions
Required dependencies installed

Instructions

Invoke this skill when the trigger conditions are met
Provide necessary context and parameters
Review the generated output
Apply modifications as needed

Output

The skill produces structured output relevant to the task.

Error Handling

Invalid input: Prompts for correction
Missing dependencies: Lists required components
Permission errors: Suggests remediation steps

Resources

Project documentation
Related skills and commands

Use it

Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.

yaml

targets:
  - https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/registry/jeremylongshore-tons-of-skills-marketplace-creating-aler-ee9bcf/manifest   # or paste the manifest below

Manifest

An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.

jeremylongshore-tons-of-skills-marketplace-creating-aler-ee9bcf.ocm.jsonjson

{
  "ocm": "1",
  "id": "jeremylongshore-tons-of-skills-marketplace-creating-aler-ee9bcf",
  "kind": "skill",
  "name": "creating-alerting-rules",
  "description": "Execute this skill enables AI assistant to create intelligent alerting rules for proactive performance monitoring. it is triggered when the user requests to \"create alerts\", \"define monitoring rules\", or \"set up alerting\". the skill helps define thresholds, rou... Use when generating or creating new content. Trigger with phrases like 'generate', 'create', or 'scaffold'.",
  "publisher": "jeremylongshore",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "capabilities": {
    "domains": [
      "general"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "skill-md",
      "performance",
      "monitoring",
      "alerting-rules",
      "skills-sh"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "en"
    ]
  },
  "quality_prior": 0.6,
  "examples": [
    "Execute this skill enables AI assistant to create intelligent alerting rules for proactive performance monitoring. it is triggered when the user requests to \"create alerts\", \"define monitoring rules\", or \"set up alerting\". the skill helps define thresholds, rou... Use when generating or creating new content. Trigger with phrases like 'generate', 'create', or 'scaffold'."
  ],
  "primary": false,
  "metadata": {
    "source": {
      "provider": "skills.sh",
      "repository": "https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace",
      "path": "skills/.curated/creating-alerting-rules/SKILL.md",
      "ref": "HEAD",
      "url": "https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/blob/HEAD/skills/.curated/creating-alerting-rules/SKILL.md",
      "key": "jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/skills/.curated/creating-alerting-rules/SKILL.md"
    },
    "compatibility": "Designed for Claude Code",
    "allowed_tools": [
      "Read,",
      "Write,",
      "Edit,",
      "Grep,",
      "Glob,",
      "Bash(cmd:*)"
    ],
    "license": "MIT"
  },
  "instructions": "# Alerting Rule Creator\n\nCreate production-ready alerting rules for Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty with intelligent thresholds, routing policies, and escalation procedures.\n\n## Overview\n\nThis skill automates the creation of comprehensive alerting rules, reducing the manual effort required for performance monitoring. It guides you through defining alert categories, setting intelligent thresholds, and configuring routing and escalation policies. The skill also helps generate runbooks and establish alert testing procedures.\n\n## How It Works\n\n1. **Identify Alert Category**: Determines the type",
  "cost": {
    "context_tokens": 780
  }
}

Fetch it by URL: GET /api/v1/registry/jeremylongshore-tons-of-skills-marketplace-creating-aler-ee9bcf/manifest?version=1.0.0

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