Distributed Tracing
This skill provides distributed tracing data to pinpoint performance bottlenecks across complex systems, improving debugging and optimization efforts.
Install on your platform
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add aj-geddes-distributed-tracing npx -- -y @trustedskills/aj-geddes-distributed-tracing
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"aj-geddes-distributed-tracing": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/aj-geddes-distributed-tracing"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
This skill enables AI agents to generate structured distributed tracing data, specifically formatted as JSON. It allows agents to simulate or log system events with timestamps and service identifiers for observability purposes.
When to use it
- Debugging complex microservice architectures where request flows span multiple components.
- Generating synthetic trace data for testing monitoring dashboards like Jaeger or Zipkin.
- Creating reproducible logs to analyze latency bottlenecks in distributed systems.
- Validating that your observability pipeline correctly parses JSON-formatted events.
Key capabilities
- Outputs tracing data strictly in valid JSON format.
- Includes standard fields such as trace ID, span ID, parent span ID, and timestamps.
- Supports custom attributes to tag specific services or operations within the trace.
- Generates hierarchical span structures representing request lifecycles.
Example prompts
"Generate a distributed trace JSON for a user login request flowing through an API gateway, auth service, and database." "Create a synthetic trace with three spans showing high latency in the payment processing step." "Output a JSON trace object including custom attributes for 'user_id' and 'transaction_type'."
Tips & gotchas
Ensure your observability backend is configured to ingest JSON payloads if you plan to visualize this data immediately. This skill focuses on data generation; it does not automatically connect to live tracing infrastructure or collect real-world metrics without additional agent logic.
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