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Observability and monitoring validation patterns for dashboards, alerting, log aggregation, APM traces, and SLA/SLO verification.
$ npx skills add proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe --skill observability-testing-patterns -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe observability-testing-patterns --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/assets/skills/observability-testing-patterns .claude/skills/observability-testing-patterns && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "observability-testing-patterns" agent skill from https://github.com/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe/tree/main/assets/skills/observability-testing-patterns into .claude/skills/observability-testing-patterns/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "observability-testing-patterns", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe/tree/main/assets/skills/observability-testing-patternsType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe --skill observability-testing-patterns -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe observability-testing-patterns --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/assets/skills/observability-testing-patterns .agents/skills/observability-testing-patterns && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "observability-testing-patterns" agent skill from https://github.com/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe/tree/main/assets/skills/observability-testing-patterns into .agents/skills/observability-testing-patterns/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "observability-testing-patterns", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe --skill observability-testing-patterns -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe observability-testing-patterns --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/assets/skills/observability-testing-patterns .cursor/skills/observability-testing-patterns && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "observability-testing-patterns" agent skill from https://github.com/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe/tree/main/assets/skills/observability-testing-patterns into .cursor/skills/observability-testing-patterns/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "observability-testing-patterns", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe.git --path assets/skills/observability-testing-patterns--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe --skill observability-testing-patterns -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe observability-testing-patterns --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/assets/skills/observability-testing-patterns .gemini/skills/observability-testing-patterns && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "observability-testing-patterns" agent skill from https://github.com/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe/tree/main/assets/skills/observability-testing-patterns into .gemini/skills/observability-testing-patterns/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "observability-testing-patterns", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe observability-testing-patternsInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe --skill observability-testing-patterns -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/assets/skills/observability-testing-patterns .github/skills/observability-testing-patterns && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "observability-testing-patterns" agent skill from https://github.com/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe/tree/main/assets/skills/observability-testing-patterns into .github/skills/observability-testing-patterns/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "observability-testing-patterns", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe --skill observability-testing-patterns -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe observability-testing-patterns --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/assets/skills/observability-testing-patterns .opencode/skills/observability-testing-patterns && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "observability-testing-patterns" agent skill from https://github.com/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe/tree/main/assets/skills/observability-testing-patterns into .opencode/skills/observability-testing-patterns/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "observability-testing-patterns", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
observability-testing-patternsObservability and monitoring validation patterns for dashboards, alerting, log aggregation, APM traces, and SLA/SLO verification.
Observability Testing Patterns is an agent skill from proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe. Observability and monitoring validation patterns for dashboards, alerting, log aggregation, APM traces, and SLA/SLO verification. Use when testing monitoring infrastructure, dashboard accuracy, alert rules, or metric pipelines.
Its SKILL.md is about 8.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 6 other files, including scripts (for example `evals/observability-testing-patterns.yaml`, `schemas/output.json` and `scripts/validate-config.json`).
It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Observability, Monitoring and alerting and Test strategy. It works with Elasticsearch. The repository describes itself as: Agentic QE Fleet is an open-source AI-powered QA/QE platform designed for use with Coding Agents (works best with Claude Code) featuring specialized agents and skills to support… The licence is MIT.
7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 829d030. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Ships 1 file in scripts/, which the agent can run.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
nodeFrom the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Observability Testing Patterns loads about 8.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 65 tokens; SKILL.md has 693 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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.
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.
The full file from proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe at commit 829d030, republished under its MIT licence (© proffesor-for-testing). 693 words, ~8,318 tokens.
.claude/skills/observability-testing-patterns/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.Dashboard screenshot validation and alert-UI verification go through the qe-browser fleet skill (.claude/skills/qe-browser/). Vibium is installed by aqe init. Typical dashboard regression workflow:
vibium go "$GRAFANA_URL/d/api-latency"
vibium wait load
node .claude/skills/qe-browser/scripts/assert.js --checks '[
{"kind": "selector_visible", "selector": ".panel-title"},
{"kind": "no_console_errors"},
{"kind": "no_failed_requests"},
{"kind": "element_count", "selector": ".panel", "op": ">=", "count": 4}
]'
node .claude/skills/qe-browser/scripts/visual-diff.js --name "grafana-api-latency"<default_to_action> When testing observability infrastructure, dashboards, or monitoring:
Quick Pattern Selection:
Critical Success Factors:
| Level | Purpose | Dependencies | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Query Validation | Elasticsearch/PromQL query accuracy | Data source | Fast |
| Dashboard Accuracy | Visual matches source data | Full stack | Medium |
| Alert Threshold | Trigger and notification testing | Alerting stack | Medium |
| Pipeline Integrity | End-to-end metric flow | Full pipeline | Slower |
| Performance | Dashboard render time, query latency | Full stack | Slower |
| Scenario | Must Test | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Data Accuracy | Dashboard = source truth | Order count on dashboard = DB count |
| Alert Firing | Threshold triggers alert | Error rate > 5% fires PagerDuty |
| Alert Recovery | Auto-resolve when recovered | Error rate drops below 5% clears alert |
| Log Completeness | All services emit logs | 10 microservices, all logs in Kibana |
| Trace Integrity | Full request path visible | Auth -> API -> DB -> Cache spans |
| SLO Compliance | Error budget tracking | 99.9% availability over 30 days |
| Time Accuracy | Timestamps aligned | Log timestamp matches event time |
qe-integration-tester: Validate data pipelines, query accuracy, log completenessqe-performance-tester: Dashboard render performance, query latencyqe-visual-tester: Dashboard visual regression, layout accuracydescribe('Dashboard Data Accuracy', () => {
it('order count on dashboard matches database', async () => {
// Step 1: Get ground truth from source database
const dbResult = await db.query(
"SELECT COUNT(*) as count FROM orders WHERE created_at >= NOW() - INTERVAL '24 HOURS'"
);
const dbCount = parseInt(dbResult.rows[0].count);
// Step 2: Query Elasticsearch (same data source as dashboard)
const esResult = await esClient.search({
index: 'orders-*',
body: {
query: {
range: { created_at: { gte: 'now-24h' } }
},
size: 0,
track_total_hits: true
}
});
const esCount = esResult.hits.total.value;
// Step 3: Compare
expect(esCount).toBe(dbCount);
});
it('revenue metric on dashboard matches transaction totals', async () => {
const dbRevenue = await db.query(
"SELECT SUM(total) as revenue FROM orders WHERE status = 'COMPLETED' AND created_at >= NOW() - INTERVAL '24 HOURS'"
);
const expectedRevenue = parseFloat(dbRevenue.rows[0].revenue);
const esResult = await esClient.search({
index: 'orders-*',
body: {
query: {
bool: {
must: [
{ term: { status: 'COMPLETED' } },
{ range: { created_at: { gte: 'now-24h' } } }
]
}
},
aggs: {
total_revenue: { sum: { field: 'total' } }
},
size: 0
}
});
const dashboardRevenue = esResult.aggregations.total_revenue.value;
// Allow small floating point tolerance
expect(Math.abs(dashboardRevenue - expectedRevenue)).toBeLessThan(0.01);
});
it('error rate percentage is calculated correctly', async () => {
const esResult = await esClient.search({
index: 'logs-*',
body: {
query: { range: { '@timestamp': { gte: 'now-1h' } } },
aggs: {
total: { value_count: { field: 'status_code' } },
errors: {
filter: { range: { status_code: { gte: 500 } } },
aggs: { count: { value_count: { field: 'status_code' } } }
}
},
size: 0
}
});
const total = esResult.aggregations.total.value;
const errors = esResult.aggregations.errors.count.value;
const expectedErrorRate = (errors / total) * 100;
// Fetch what the dashboard shows via Kibana API
const dashboardPanel = await kibanaApi.get('/api/saved_objects/visualization/error-rate-gauge');
const displayedErrorRate = await evaluateKibanaVisualization(dashboardPanel);
expect(Math.abs(displayedErrorRate - expectedErrorRate)).toBeLessThan(0.1);
});
});describe('Elasticsearch Query Validation', () => {
it('validates date histogram aggregation returns correct buckets', async () => {
// Insert known test data
const testDocs = [];
for (let hour = 0; hour < 24; hour++) {
const timestamp = new Date();
timestamp.setHours(hour, 0, 0, 0);
testDocs.push({
'@timestamp': timestamp.toISOString(),
service: 'order-api',
status_code: hour % 5 === 0 ? 500 : 200,
response_time: 100 + (hour * 10)
});
}
await esClient.bulk({
index: 'test-logs',
body: testDocs.flatMap(doc => [{ index: {} }, doc])
});
await esClient.indices.refresh({ index: 'test-logs' });
// Run the same query the dashboard uses
const result = await esClient.search({
index: 'test-logs',
body: {
query: { match_all: {} },
aggs: {
requests_over_time: {
date_histogram: { field: '@timestamp', fixed_interval: '1h' },
aggs: {
avg_response: { avg: { field: 'response_time' } },
error_count: {
filter: { range: { status_code: { gte: 500 } } }
}
}
}
},
size: 0
}
});
const buckets = result.aggregations.requests_over_time.buckets;
expect(buckets.length).toBe(24);
// Verify specific bucket values
const errorBuckets = buckets.filter(b => b.error_count.doc_count > 0);
expect(errorBuckets.length).toBe(5); // Hours 0, 5, 10, 15, 20
});
it('validates term aggregation for top services', async () => {
const result = await esClient.search({
index: 'logs-*',
body: {
query: { range: { '@timestamp': { gte: 'now-1h' } } },
aggs: {
top_services: {
terms: { field: 'service.keyword', size: 10 }
}
},
size: 0
}
});
const services = result.aggregations.top_services.buckets;
expect(services.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
// Each bucket should have reasonable doc counts
for (const bucket of services) {
expect(bucket.key).toBeDefined();
expect(bucket.doc_count).toBeGreaterThan(0);
}
});
});describe('Kibana Dashboard Visual Validation', () => {
it('validates dashboard panels render without errors', async () => {
await page.goto(`${kibanaUrl}/app/dashboards#/view/operations-overview`);
// Wait for all panels to finish loading
await page.waitForSelector('.embPanel__content', { state: 'visible' });
await page.waitForFunction(() => {
const loaders = document.querySelectorAll('.euiLoadingSpinner');
return loaders.length === 0;
}, { timeout: 30000 });
// Check no error icons on any panel
const errorPanels = await page.locator('.embPanel--error').count();
expect(errorPanels).toBe(0);
// Check no "No results found" where data is expected
const noResultPanels = await page.locator('text="No results found"').count();
expect(noResultPanels).toBe(0);
});
it('validates metric visualization shows correct value', async () => {
await page.goto(`${kibanaUrl}/app/dashboards#/view/operations-overview`);
await page.waitForLoadState('networkidle');
// Get the displayed metric value
const metricValue = await page.locator('[data-test-subj="metricVis-total-orders"] .mtrVis__value').textContent();
const displayedCount = parseInt(metricValue.replace(/,/g, ''));
// Compare with direct ES query
const esResult = await esClient.count({ index: 'orders-*' });
expect(displayedCount).toBe(esResult.count);
});
it('validates table visualization columns and sorting', async () => {
await page.goto(`${kibanaUrl}/app/dashboards#/view/operations-overview`);
await page.waitForLoadState('networkidle');
// Verify expected columns exist
const headers = await page.locator('.euiTable th').allTextContents();
expect(headers).toContain('Service');
expect(headers).toContain('Error Rate');
expect(headers).toContain('P95 Latency');
// Verify sorting works
await page.click('th:has-text("Error Rate")');
const firstRow = await page.locator('.euiTable tbody tr:first-child td').allTextContents();
const secondRow = await page.locator('.euiTable tbody tr:nth-child(2) td').allTextContents();
const firstErrorRate = parseFloat(firstRow[1]);
const secondErrorRate = parseFloat(secondRow[1]);
expect(firstErrorRate).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(secondErrorRate);
});
});describe('Alert Rule Validation', () => {
it('fires alert when error rate exceeds threshold', async () => {
// Generate errors to exceed the 5% threshold
const requests = [];
for (let i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
requests.push({
'@timestamp': new Date().toISOString(),
service: 'payment-api',
status_code: i < 10 ? 500 : 200, // 10% error rate > 5% threshold
response_time: 200
});
}
await esClient.bulk({
index: 'logs-payment',
body: requests.flatMap(doc => [{ index: {} }, doc])
});
await esClient.indices.refresh({ index: 'logs-payment' });
// Wait for alert evaluation cycle (typically 1 minute)
await sleep(90000);
// Check alert was fired
const alerts = await alertManager.getActiveAlerts({
filter: 'alertname="HighErrorRate" AND service="payment-api"'
});
expect(alerts.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
expect(alerts[0].labels.severity).toBe('critical');
});
it('alert auto-resolves when condition clears', async () => {
// First trigger the alert
await injectErrors('payment-api', { count: 50, total: 100 });
await sleep(90000);
let alerts = await alertManager.getActiveAlerts({ filter: 'alertname="HighErrorRate"' });
expect(alerts.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
// Now inject healthy traffic to bring error rate below threshold
await injectSuccessRequests('payment-api', { count: 1000 });
await sleep(90000);
// Alert should auto-resolve
alerts = await alertManager.getActiveAlerts({ filter: 'alertname="HighErrorRate"' });
expect(alerts.length).toBe(0);
});
it('alert notification reaches correct channel', async () => {
// Subscribe to notification channel
const notifications = [];
const subscription = pagerDutyMock.onIncident((incident) => {
notifications.push(incident);
});
// Trigger alert condition
await injectErrors('critical-service', { count: 50, total: 100 });
await sleep(120000);
expect(notifications.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
expect(notifications[0].service.name).toBe('critical-service');
expect(notifications[0].urgency).toBe('high');
subscription.unsubscribe();
});
it('alert does not fire for brief transient spikes', async () => {
// Inject a brief 30-second spike (alert requires 5 minutes sustained)
await injectErrors('api-service', { count: 20, total: 50, duration: 30000 });
await sleep(120000);
const alerts = await alertManager.getActiveAlerts({ filter: 'alertname="HighErrorRate"' });
expect(alerts.length).toBe(0); // Should NOT fire for transient spike
});
});describe('Log Aggregation Completeness', () => {
it('all microservice logs appear in centralized index', async () => {
const traceId = uuid();
const services = ['api-gateway', 'auth-service', 'order-service', 'payment-service', 'notification-service'];
// Generate a log entry with known traceId in each service
for (const service of services) {
await serviceLogEmitter.emit(service, {
level: 'INFO',
message: `Completeness test - ${traceId}`,
traceId,
timestamp: new Date().toISOString()
});
}
// Wait for log pipeline to process (Filebeat -> Logstash -> Elasticsearch)
await sleep(15000);
// Query Elasticsearch for the trace ID
const result = await esClient.search({
index: 'logs-*',
body: {
query: { term: { 'traceId.keyword': traceId } },
size: 100
}
});
const foundServices = result.hits.hits.map(h => h._source.service);
// All services should have their log entry in Elasticsearch
for (const service of services) {
expect(foundServices).toContain(service);
}
expect(foundServices.length).toBe(services.length);
});
it('logs retain correct structure after pipeline processing', async () => {
const testLog = {
level: 'ERROR',
message: 'Payment declined',
traceId: uuid(),
userId: 'user-123',
orderId: 'order-456',
errorCode: 'INSUFFICIENT_FUNDS',
timestamp: new Date().toISOString()
};
await serviceLogEmitter.emit('payment-service', testLog);
await sleep(10000);
const result = await esClient.search({
index: 'logs-*',
body: { query: { term: { 'traceId.keyword': testLog.traceId } } }
});
expect(result.hits.hits.length).toBe(1);
const indexed = result.hits.hits[0]._source;
// Verify all fields survived the pipeline
expect(indexed.level).toBe('ERROR');
expect(indexed.message).toBe('Payment declined');
expect(indexed.userId).toBe('user-123');
expect(indexed.orderId).toBe('order-456');
expect(indexed.errorCode).toBe('INSUFFICIENT_FUNDS');
});
it('detects log volume drops indicating pipeline issues', async () => {
// Get baseline log volume for the past hour
const baseline = await esClient.count({
index: 'logs-*',
body: { query: { range: { '@timestamp': { gte: 'now-2h', lt: 'now-1h' } } } }
});
const current = await esClient.count({
index: 'logs-*',
body: { query: { range: { '@timestamp': { gte: 'now-1h' } } } }
});
// Current volume should be at least 50% of baseline (not a sudden drop)
const ratio = current.count / baseline.count;
expect(ratio).toBeGreaterThan(0.5);
});
});describe('Distributed Trace Validation', () => {
it('captures complete trace across all services', async () => {
// Make a request that traverses multiple services
const response = await httpClient.post('/api/orders', {
customerId: 'CUST-TRACE',
items: [{ sku: 'ITEM-1', qty: 1 }]
});
const traceId = response.headers['x-trace-id'];
expect(traceId).toBeDefined();
// Wait for trace to be indexed
await sleep(10000);
// Query Jaeger/APM for the trace
const trace = await jaegerClient.getTrace(traceId);
// Verify all expected spans exist
const spanNames = trace.spans.map(s => s.operationName);
expect(spanNames).toContain('POST /api/orders');
expect(spanNames).toContain('auth.validateToken');
expect(spanNames).toContain('order.create');
expect(spanNames).toContain('payment.authorize');
expect(spanNames).toContain('inventory.reserve');
expect(spanNames).toContain('db.insert orders');
// Verify parent-child relationships
const apiSpan = trace.spans.find(s => s.operationName === 'POST /api/orders');
const authSpan = trace.spans.find(s => s.operationName === 'auth.validateToken');
expect(authSpan.references[0].refType).toBe('CHILD_OF');
expect(authSpan.references[0].spanID).toBe(apiSpan.spanID);
});
it('traces capture error spans correctly', async () => {
// Trigger a known error
const response = await httpClient.post('/api/orders', {
customerId: 'INVALID-CUSTOMER',
items: [{ sku: 'ITEM-1', qty: 1 }]
});
const traceId = response.headers['x-trace-id'];
await sleep(10000);
const trace = await jaegerClient.getTrace(traceId);
// Find error span
const errorSpan = trace.spans.find(s => s.tags.some(t => t.key === 'error' && t.value === true));
expect(errorSpan).toBeDefined();
expect(errorSpan.logs).toContainEqual(
expect.objectContaining({
fields: expect.arrayContaining([
expect.objectContaining({ key: 'error.message' })
])
})
);
});
it('validates trace sampling rate', async () => {
const requestCount = 100;
const traceIds = [];
for (let i = 0; i < requestCount; i++) {
const resp = await httpClient.get('/api/health');
if (resp.headers['x-trace-id']) {
traceIds.push(resp.headers['x-trace-id']);
}
}
await sleep(15000);
let tracesFound = 0;
for (const traceId of traceIds) {
try {
await jaegerClient.getTrace(traceId);
tracesFound++;
} catch (e) {
// Trace not sampled
}
}
// With 10% sampling rate, expect roughly 10 traces (allow variance)
const samplingRate = tracesFound / requestCount;
expect(samplingRate).toBeGreaterThan(0.05);
expect(samplingRate).toBeLessThan(0.20);
});
});describe('SLA/SLO Compliance Validation', () => {
it('validates 99.9% availability SLO over 30 days', async () => {
const result = await prometheusClient.query(
'avg_over_time(up{job="api-service"}[30d])'
);
const availability = parseFloat(result.data.result[0].value[1]) * 100;
expect(availability).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(99.9);
// Calculate error budget remaining
const totalMinutes = 30 * 24 * 60;
const allowedDowntime = totalMinutes * 0.001; // 43.2 minutes
const actualDowntime = totalMinutes * (1 - availability / 100);
const errorBudgetRemaining = ((allowedDowntime - actualDowntime) / allowedDowntime) * 100;
expect(errorBudgetRemaining).toBeGreaterThan(0);
console.log(`Error budget remaining: ${errorBudgetRemaining.toFixed(1)}%`);
});
it('validates P95 latency SLO', async () => {
const result = await prometheusClient.query(
'histogram_quantile(0.95, sum(rate(http_request_duration_seconds_bucket{service="api-service"}[24h])) by (le))'
);
const p95Latency = parseFloat(result.data.result[0].value[1]) * 1000; // Convert to ms
expect(p95Latency).toBeLessThan(500); // SLO: P95 < 500ms
});
it('runs synthetic monitoring check for uptime', async () => {
const endpoints = [
{ url: '/api/health', expectedStatus: 200, maxLatency: 200 },
{ url: '/api/orders', expectedStatus: 401, maxLatency: 300 }, // Auth required
{ url: '/api/products', expectedStatus: 200, maxLatency: 500 }
];
const results = [];
for (const endpoint of endpoints) {
const start = Date.now();
const response = await httpClient.get(endpoint.url);
const latency = Date.now() - start;
results.push({
url: endpoint.url,
status: response.status,
latency,
statusMatch: response.status === endpoint.expectedStatus,
latencyOk: latency <= endpoint.maxLatency
});
}
// All checks should pass
for (const result of results) {
expect(result.statusMatch).toBe(true);
expect(result.latencyOk).toBe(true);
}
});
});describe('Metric Pipeline - Collection to Display', () => {
it('validates custom metric flows from app to Prometheus to Grafana', async () => {
// Step 1: Emit a known custom metric from application
const metricName = 'test_orders_processed_total';
const expectedValue = 42;
await appMetrics.set(metricName, expectedValue, { service: 'test' });
// Step 2: Wait for scrape interval (15s default)
await sleep(20000);
// Step 3: Query Prometheus directly
const promResult = await prometheusClient.query(`${metricName}{service="test"}`);
const promValue = parseFloat(promResult.data.result[0].value[1]);
expect(promValue).toBe(expectedValue);
// Step 4: Query Grafana datasource API (same as dashboard would)
const grafanaResult = await grafanaApi.post('/api/ds/query', {
queries: [{
datasource: { type: 'prometheus' },
expr: `${metricName}{service="test"}`,
refId: 'A'
}]
});
const grafanaValue = parseFloat(grafanaResult.body.results.A.frames[0].data.values[1][0]);
expect(grafanaValue).toBe(expectedValue);
});
it('validates histogram metric percentile accuracy', async () => {
// Generate known latency distribution
const latencies = [10, 20, 30, 50, 100, 200, 300, 500, 1000, 2000]; // ms
for (const latency of latencies) {
await appMetrics.observe('http_request_duration_ms', latency, { endpoint: '/test' });
}
await sleep(20000);
// Verify P50 and P99
const p50 = await prometheusClient.query(
'histogram_quantile(0.5, rate(http_request_duration_ms_bucket{endpoint="/test"}[5m]))'
);
const p99 = await prometheusClient.query(
'histogram_quantile(0.99, rate(http_request_duration_ms_bucket{endpoint="/test"}[5m]))'
);
const p50Value = parseFloat(p50.data.result[0].value[1]);
const p99Value = parseFloat(p99.data.result[0].value[1]);
// P50 should be around 100ms (median of our distribution)
expect(p50Value).toBeGreaterThan(50);
expect(p50Value).toBeLessThan(300);
// P99 should be around 2000ms
expect(p99Value).toBeGreaterThan(1000);
});
});describe('Dashboard Performance', () => {
it('dashboard loads within acceptable time', async () => {
const start = Date.now();
await page.goto(`${kibanaUrl}/app/dashboards#/view/operations-overview`);
// Wait for all panels to finish loading
await page.waitForFunction(() => {
const spinners = document.querySelectorAll('.euiLoadingSpinner');
return spinners.length === 0;
}, { timeout: 30000 });
const loadTime = Date.now() - start;
expect(loadTime).toBeLessThan(10000); // Dashboard should load in under 10s
});
it('dashboard handles large time range without timeout', async () => {
// Set time range to 30 days
await page.goto(`${kibanaUrl}/app/dashboards#/view/operations-overview?_g=(time:(from:now-30d,to:now))`);
// Should complete without timeout error
await page.waitForFunction(() => {
const errors = document.querySelectorAll('.embPanel--error');
const spinners = document.querySelectorAll('.euiLoadingSpinner');
return errors.length === 0 && spinners.length === 0;
}, { timeout: 60000 });
const errorPanels = await page.locator('.embPanel--error').count();
expect(errorPanels).toBe(0);
});
it('Elasticsearch query performance is within bounds', async () => {
const queries = [
{ name: 'date_histogram', body: { aggs: { over_time: { date_histogram: { field: '@timestamp', fixed_interval: '1h' } } }, size: 0 } },
{ name: 'terms_agg', body: { aggs: { top_services: { terms: { field: 'service.keyword', size: 20 } } }, size: 0 } },
{ name: 'percentiles', body: { aggs: { latency: { percentiles: { field: 'response_time', percents: [50, 90, 95, 99] } } }, size: 0 } }
];
for (const query of queries) {
const start = Date.now();
await esClient.search({ index: 'logs-*', body: { query: { range: { '@timestamp': { gte: 'now-24h' } } }, ...query.body } });
const elapsed = Date.now() - start;
expect(elapsed).toBeLessThan(5000); // Each query under 5s
}
});
});describe('Time-Series Data Accuracy', () => {
it('validates no data gaps in time-series metrics', async () => {
const result = await prometheusClient.queryRange(
'up{job="api-service"}',
{ start: 'now-24h', end: 'now', step: '5m' }
);
const values = result.data.result[0].values;
const expectedPoints = (24 * 60) / 5; // 288 data points for 24h at 5m intervals
// Allow up to 5% missing data points
expect(values.length).toBeGreaterThan(expectedPoints * 0.95);
// Check for gaps longer than 15 minutes (3 consecutive missing points)
for (let i = 1; i < values.length; i++) {
const gap = values[i][0] - values[i - 1][0]; // timestamp difference
expect(gap).toBeLessThanOrEqual(900); // No gap > 15 minutes
}
});
it('validates timestamp alignment across sources', async () => {
// Generate event with precise timestamp
const eventTime = new Date();
const traceId = uuid();
await httpClient.post('/api/test-event', { traceId });
await sleep(15000);
// Check timestamp in logs
const logResult = await esClient.search({
index: 'logs-*',
body: { query: { term: { 'traceId.keyword': traceId } } }
});
const logTimestamp = new Date(logResult.hits.hits[0]._source['@timestamp']);
// Check timestamp in metrics (approximate)
// Timestamps should be within 5 seconds of each other
const diff = Math.abs(logTimestamp.getTime() - eventTime.getTime());
expect(diff).toBeLessThan(5000);
});
});// Data accuracy validation
await Task("Dashboard Data Accuracy Validation", {
dashboard: 'operations-overview',
panels: ['order-count', 'revenue-total', 'error-rate'],
sourceDatabase: 'orders-db',
compareFields: ['count', 'sum(total)', 'error_percentage'],
tolerance: 0.01
}, "qe-integration-tester");
// Dashboard performance testing
await Task("Dashboard Performance Benchmark", {
dashboardUrl: 'http://kibana:5601/app/dashboards#/view/operations-overview',
timeRanges: ['15m', '1h', '24h', '7d', '30d'],
maxLoadTime: 10000,
maxQueryTime: 5000,
captureScreenshots: true
}, "qe-performance-tester");
// Dashboard visual regression
await Task("Dashboard Visual Regression", {
dashboardUrl: 'http://kibana:5601/app/dashboards#/view/operations-overview',
baselineScreenshots: 'baseline/dashboards/',
threshold: 0.05,
ignoreRegions: ['timestamp-header', 'dynamic-counters']
}, "qe-visual-tester");
// Alert rule validation
await Task("Alert Rule Comprehensive Test", {
alertRules: ['HighErrorRate', 'HighLatency', 'ServiceDown'],
testFiring: true,
testRecovery: true,
testNotificationChannel: true,
validateSilencing: true
}, "qe-integration-tester");aqe/observability-testing/
dashboards/ - Dashboard test results and screenshots
alerts/ - Alert rule test outcomes
logs/ - Log completeness validation results
traces/ - APM trace validation results
slo/ - SLA/SLO compliance metrics
pipelines/ - Metric pipeline integrity checks
performance/ - Dashboard and query performance benchmarksconst observabilityFleet = await FleetManager.coordinate({
strategy: 'observability-testing',
agents: [
'qe-integration-tester', // Data accuracy, log completeness, alert rules
'qe-performance-tester', // Dashboard load time, query latency
'qe-visual-tester' // Dashboard visual regression
],
topology: 'mesh'
});
await observabilityFleet.execute({
targets: [
{ type: 'dashboard', id: 'operations-overview', checks: ['accuracy', 'performance', 'visual'] },
{ type: 'alerts', rules: ['HighErrorRate', 'HighLatency'], checks: ['fire', 'resolve', 'notify'] },
{ type: 'logs', services: ['api', 'auth', 'payment'], checks: ['completeness', 'structure'] },
{ type: 'traces', endpoints: ['/api/orders'], checks: ['spans', 'errors', 'sampling'] }
]
});Observability testing is about proving that your monitoring tells the truth. A dashboard that shows green when the system is on fire is worse than no dashboard at all. Validate data accuracy by comparing against source databases, test alert thresholds with controlled data injection, and verify log completeness by tracing known events through the entire pipeline.
With Agents: Agents automate the tedious comparison of dashboard values against source databases, systematically test alert thresholds with synthetic load, and validate log pipeline completeness across all services. Use agents to continuously verify that your observability stack is trustworthy.
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