# Observability Cli Guides

> Curated map of the terminal query surface of every major observability backend. Use when observing a run - local or remote - to pick the stack's backend and learn how to authenticate and query its metrics, traces, logs, and profiles from a CLI - Grafana (gcx), Datadog (Pup CLI), Dynatrace (dtctl and DQL), Azure Monitor (az), AWS CloudWatch and X-Ray (aws), Splunk (splunk CLI and SPL).

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-using-system-oddyssey-observability-cli-guides`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [using-system](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/using-system)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Cloud & Infrastructure](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/cloud-infrastructure)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [using-system](https://github.com/using-system)
- **Source:** https://github.com/using-system/oddyssey/tree/main/marketplace/oddyssey/skills/observability-cli-guides
- **Website:** https://github.com/using-system/oddyssey#readme

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-using-system-oddyssey-observability-cli-guides
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Observability CLI Guides

A selection map over the query CLIs of the major observability backends.
Pick the observed stack's backend, read its reference file, then follow the
linked official docs — the fetched page is the source of truth, not memory.
The method is the same everywhere: authenticate, **discover** what the
service emits, then **query** what you discovered.

## Pick the backend

| Backend | CLI | Reference |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grafana (local oddyssey stack, self-hosted, Cloud) | `gcx` | [references/grafana.md](references/grafana.md) |
| Datadog | Pup CLI (`pup`) | [references/datadog.md](references/datadog.md) |
| Dynatrace | `dtctl` (DQL) | [references/dynatrace.md](references/dynatrace.md) |
| Azure Monitor (App Insights, Log Analytics) | `az` (KQL) | [references/azure-monitor.md](references/azure-monitor.md) |
| AWS CloudWatch + X-Ray | `aws` | [references/cloudwatch.md](references/cloudwatch.md) |
| Splunk (Enterprise / Cloud Platform, Observability Cloud) | `splunk` (SPL) | [references/splunk.md](references/splunk.md) |

Each reference covers: setup and authentication, the discovery-then-query
commands per signal (metrics, traces, logs, profiles where the backend has
them), and Planning notes with the backend's coverage gaps and quirks.

For the **local oddyssey stack** (the Grafana case), the `setup-local-stack`
skill carries the ready-made gcx context — isolated config and datasource
UIDs. gcx is the stack's mandatory query CLI.

## Rules

- Recommendations and commands must come from the reference's linked docs,
  fetched — never from memory; CLIs move fast.
- Credentials come from the environment or the caller (env vars, secret
  stores); never invent, echo, or store them.
- Planning notes are a snapshot (last verified 2026-08); the fetched
  official page always overrides them.
- If the stack's backend is not in the table, say so and fall back to the
  backend's documented REST API over `curl` — the discover-then-query
  method still applies.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [using-system](https://github.com/using-system)
- **Source:** [using-system/oddyssey](https://github.com/using-system/oddyssey)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://github.com/using-system/oddyssey#readme

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** yes
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-using-system-oddyssey-observability-cli-guides
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/using-system
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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