Agent skill · DevOps · redis

redis-observability agent skill by redis

Guides Redis monitoring, covering which metrics to track, built-in commands for incident triage such as SLOWLOG and INFO, and when to use Redis Insight.

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At a glance

PublisherRedis Official
Repositoryredis/agent-skills (8 listed skills)
CategoryDevOps and Cloud
LicenseMIT
Last commitSeptember 8, 2026 (repository)
SKILL.md68 lines, 418 words
Bundled files3 files, including references
Quality score75/100 · C Passes all seven graded checks
Security scanNot scanned
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Before you install

Read from the skill's files at the directory's October 19, 2026 snapshot: what ships with it, what its code reads, and the terms it is published under.

Install redis-observability

The skills CLI works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents; the other routes copy the folder by hand.

Skills CLI
npx skills add https://github.com/redis/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/redis-observability
Claude Code, project-level copy
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/redis/agent-skills.git "$tmp/repo"
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -R "$tmp/repo/"skills/redis-observability .claude/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"
Codex installer
python3 ~/.codex/skills/.system/skill-installer/scripts/install-skill-from-github.py \
    --repo redis/agent-skills \
    --path skills/redis-observability

redis/agent-skills is third-party code. Read SKILL.md and any bundled scripts before you install it.

How the author describes it

Redis observability guidance — which metrics to monitor (memory, connections, hit ratio, ops/sec, rejected connections), which built-in commands to reach for during incident triage (SLOWLOG, INFO, MEMORY DOCTOR, CLIENT LIST, FT.PROFILE), and when to use the Redis Insight GUI. Use when setting up monitoring or alerts for a Redis instance, diagnosing a performance regression, profiling a slow FT.SEARCH query, or wiring Redis metrics into Prometheus, Datadog, or similar.

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Suede Skill Check: 75/100 · C

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The rubric totals 100 points; published scores are capped at 99. Security scan: not scanned.

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  • Boundary clause: 0 of 4 points. 4 when the description says when not to use the skill (“Not for …”, “Do not use …”, “Use … instead”).
  • Example request: 0 of 3 points. 3 when the description quotes an example request (3–60 characters in quotation marks).
  • Instruction depth: 4 of 7 points. 7 for a SKILL.md body of 500–3,000 words; 4 for 250–4,500; 1 for 100 or more.

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redis-observability passes the required frontmatter check and all seven graded checks, which cover the SKILL.md format, a declared license and a commit in the last year. Those checks earn 56 of the score’s points; the rest come from description quality, instruction depth, bundled files, maintenance and curated-list citations. How the score works.

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CheckResult
Frontmatter parses and declares a name and a descriptionPass
Name uses lowercase letters, digits and hyphens, 64 characters or fewerPass
Name matches the skill's folder namePass
Description is between 50 and 1,024 charactersPass
Description says when an agent should use the skillPass
SKILL.md body is 500 lines or fewerPass
A license is declared in the frontmatter or the repositoryPass
Repository has a commit in the last 12 monthsPass
Score componentPoints
Structural checks56 of 56
Description length5 of 5
Boundary clause0 of 4
Example request0 of 3
Instruction depth4 of 7
Reference files3 of 3
Bundled scripts0 of 2
Recent maintenance6 of 9
Curated-list citations1 of 7
Tool permissions declared0 of 2
Compatibility declared0 of 2

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redis-observability is listed with 75/100 · C. This badge links to its Suede listing. Skills scoring 80–99 add a numeric and a letter quality shield; the largest open points for redis-observability are boundary clause (4), example request (3) and instruction depth (3). Send your repository and the points you want to raise, then request a fresh review after updating the skill.

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