Glean Observability

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve Observability

Example prompts

• “glean observability”
• “observability”
• “/glean-observability”

Requirements

• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit, Bash(npm:*), Bash(curl:*), Grep

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Instrument aggregate request, error, latency, freshness, queue, and ACL-probe metrics at the connector and datasource boundary.
2. 2Redact event fields before export, bound payload capture, and validate that a failed redaction fails closed.
3. 3Alert on sustained failures, freshness regression, access-boundary difference, and evidence-pipeline failure with an owner and response…
4. 4Test alerts with synthetic events, verify the destination/retention policy, and remove test data after the exercise.
5. 5Review dashboards after every connector or ACL change and retain only the minimum receipt needed for incident reconstruction.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Write
  • Edit
  • Bash(npm:*)
  • Bash(curl:*)
  • Grep

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are typescript).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • developers.glean.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Designed for Claude Code

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Glean Observability loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 60 tokens; SKILL.md has 376 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~60

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 376 words, ~1,420 tokens.

name

glean-observability

description

Track: documents indexed per run (total + new + updated + deleted), indexing errors and retries, search API latency, zero-result query rate, stale content age distribution. Trigger: "glean observability", "observability".

allowed-tools

Read, Write, Edit, Bash(npm:*), Bash(curl:*), Grep

compatibility

Designed for Claude Code

version

1.8.0

license

MIT

author

Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>

tags

saas, enterprise-search, glean

async function trackGleanSearch(query: string, client: GleanClient) {
  const start = Date.now();
  try {
    const results = await client.search({ query });
    const latency = Date.now() - start;
    metrics.histogram('glean.search.latency', latency);
    metrics.increment('glean.search.total');
    if (results.totalCount === 0) metrics.increment('glean.search.zero_results');
    return results;
  } catch (err) {
    metrics.increment('glean.search.errors', { error: err.code });
    throw err;
  }
}

async function gleanHealth(): Promise<Record<string, string>> {
  const connectors = await gleanAdmin.getConnectorStatus();
  const staleRatio = await gleanAdmin.getStaleContentRatio(30);
  const searchP95 = await metrics.query('glean.search.latency', 'p95', '5m');
  return {
    connectors: connectors.every(c => c.status === 'ok') ? 'healthy' : 'degraded',
    content_freshness: staleRatio < 0.1 ? 'healthy' : 'stale',
    search_latency: searchP95 < 400 ? 'healthy' : 'slow',
  };
}

const alerts = [
  { metric: 'glean.search.latency_p95', condition: '> 1000ms', window: '10m', severity: 'warning' },
  { metric: 'glean.search.zero_result_rate', condition: '> 0.10', window: '1h', severity: 'warning' },
  { metric: 'glean.indexing.sync_errors', condition: '> 3', window: '1h', severity: 'critical' },
  { metric: 'glean.indexing.doc_count_delta', condition: 'drop > 20%', window: '1d', severity: 'critical' },
];

function logGleanEvent(event: string, data: Record<string, any>) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify({
    service: 'glean', event,
    connector: data.connector, doc_count: data.docCount,
    query: data.query ? data.query.substring(0, 100) : undefined,
    latency_ms: data.latency, result_count: data.resultCount,
    timestamp: new Date().toISOString(),
  }));
}

© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/.curated/glean-observability of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287