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Monitoring and observability strategy, implementation, and troubleshooting. Use this skill whenever the user mentions monitoring, observability, metrics, logs, traces, alerting, SLOs, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Loki, or OpenTelemetry. Triggers include designing metrics strategy (Four Golden Signals, RED/USE), setting up Prometheus/Grafana/Loki, creating alerts or dashboards, calculating SLOs and error budgets, instrumenting with OpenTelemetry, analyzing performance issues, choosing between monitoring tools, optimizing Datadog costs, migrating to open-source stack, and setting up distributed tracing.

CI/CD pipeline design, optimization, DevSecOps security scanning, and troubleshooting. Use this skill whenever the user mentions CI/CD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, pipelines, workflows, builds, or DevSecOps. Triggers include creating new CI/CD workflows, debugging pipeline failures or flaky tests, implementing SAST/DAST/SCA security scanning, optimizing slow builds with caching or parallelization, setting up deployment workflows, securing pipelines with OIDC or secrets management, implementing matrix builds or test sharding, and troubleshooting Docker, permissions, or timeout issues.

AWS cost optimization and FinOps workflows. Use for finding unused resources, analyzing Reserved Instance opportunities, detecting cost anomalies, rightsizing instances, evaluating Spot instances, migrating to newer generation instances, implementing FinOps best practices, optimizing storage/network/database costs, and managing cloud financial operations. Includes automated analysis scripts and comprehensive reference documentation.

Systematic Kubernetes troubleshooting and incident response. Use this skill whenever the user mentions Kubernetes, K8s, kubectl, pods, containers, or clusters. Triggers include diagnosing CrashLoopBackOff, ImagePullBackOff, OOMKilled, or Pending pods, responding to production incidents, troubleshooting node NotReady or DiskPressure, debugging service connectivity or networking, investigating PVC or storage failures, analyzing performance degradation, checking cluster health, troubleshooting Helm releases, and conducting post-incident reviews.

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Terragrunt. Use this skill whenever the user mentions Terraform, Terragrunt, HCL, or infrastructure as code. Triggers include writing or reviewing .tf files, creating reusable modules, debugging terraform plan/apply errors, managing remote state and locks, fixing state drift, setting up CI/CD for Terraform, scaffolding new modules, validating module structure, and implementing Terragrunt DRY patterns across environments.