# Monitor

> Use this skill when the user needs to set up production monitoring, track app health, configure error alerts, or respond to incidents. Also use when the user says 'my app went down,' 'how do I know if something breaks,' 'set up alerts,' 'is my app healthy,' or 'I found out from a user that my site was down.' Covers error tracking, uptime monitoring, performance metrics, and incident response for…

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-whawkinsiv-solo-founder-skills-monitor`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [whawkinsiv](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/whawkinsiv)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Data & Analytics](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/data-and-analytics)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [whawkinsiv](https://github.com/whawkinsiv)
- **Source:** https://github.com/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/tree/main/skills/monitor

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-whawkinsiv-solo-founder-skills-monitor
```

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

## About

# Monitor

**This skill is for production monitoring and incident response.** For debugging specific bugs, use **debug**. For pre-launch readiness checks, use **go-live**. For security-specific monitoring (auth events, API abuse), use **secure**. For analytics and user behavior tracking, use **analytics**.

### Don't Do Yet

- **Don't pay for monitoring tools** until you've outgrown the free tiers. UptimeRobot + Sentry free handles most early-stage apps.
- **Don't set up DataDog, New Relic, or Grafana.** These are enterprise tools. You don't need them with 2 seconds)
- Error rate elevated (2x normal)
- Disk space low (>80%)

**Informational (daily digest):**
- New errors discovered
- Performance trending down
- Traffic patterns

**Tell AI:**
```
Configure monitoring alerts:
- Critical: Text to [phone]
- Important: Email to [email]
- Send summary: Daily at 9am
```

---

## Daily Monitoring Routine

**5-minute morning check:**

```
Daily Check:
1. Open monitoring dashboard
2. Check uptime (should be 100% yesterday)
3. Check error count (any spikes?)
4. Check performance (slower than usual?)
5. Review any alerts from overnight
```

**If all green:** You're done, 5 minutes.

**If red:** Investigate using debug skill.

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## Reading Monitoring Dashboards

### Uptime Dashboard

**Green:** Site responding  
**Red:** Site down or slow to respond

**What to check:**
- Uptime percentage (target: 99%+)
- Response time (target: 1s)
- Log authentication events
- Don't log sensitive data

Format: JSON with timestamp, level, message, context
Send to: [Platform logs or external service]
```

**Log levels:**
- ERROR: Something broke
- WARN: Something concerning
- INFO: Normal operations
- DEBUG: Detailed debugging info

**Production:** Log ERROR and WARN only.

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## Monitoring Integrations

**Third-party services:**

**Payments (Stripe):**
- Failed payments alert
- Refund requests alert
- Subscription cancellations (daily digest)

**Email (SendGrid):**
- Delivery failures alert
- Bounce rate elevated alert
- Spam complaints alert

**Database:**
- Connection pool exhausted
- Slow queries (>1s)
- Disk space low

**Tell AI:**
```
Add monitoring for [service]:
- Alert on failures
- Track success rate
- Log errors with context
```

---

## Incident Response

**When alerts fire:**

```
Incident Response:
1. Acknowledge alert (mark as seen)
2. Assess severity:
   - Critical: Site down, payments failing
   - High: Errors affecting many users
   - Medium: Isolated issues
3. Immediate action:
   - Critical: Hotfix or rollback
   - High: Fix within hours
   - Medium: Fix in next deploy
4. Update users if needed
5. Post-mortem after resolved
```

**Critical incidents:**
```
1. Assess impact (how many affected?)
2. Quick fix or rollback
3. Deploy hotfix
4. Verify fixed
5. Monitor closely for hour
6. Update status page if you have one
```

---

## Success Looks Like

✅ Know about issues before users report them
✅ Uptime >99.9%
✅ Errors caught and fixed quickly
✅ Performance trends stable or improving
✅ Daily monitoring routine (5 minutes)
✅ Alerts configured and actionable
✅ Issues resolved proactively

---

## Related Skills

- **debug** — Investigate and fix specific bugs
- **deploy** — Hosting setup and rollback procedures
- **secure** — Security monitoring and hardening
- **analytics** — User behavior tracking and conversion funnels
- **go-live** — Pre-launch readiness (includes monitoring as a checklist item)

## Source & license

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

- **Author:** [whawkinsiv](https://github.com/whawkinsiv)
- **Source:** [whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills](https://github.com/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills)
- **License:** MIT

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:** no
- **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-whawkinsiv-solo-founder-skills-monitor
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/whawkinsiv
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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