Obs Stack Status

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Check obs stack health and service status. Use this skill whenever the user asks about stack health, whether services are running, if telemetry is flowing, why dashboards show no data, or anything related to the obs stack being up or down. Also use when troubleshooting "no data" issues, checking if Prometheus/Loki/Tempo/Grafana are reachable, or after running docker compose up to verify everything started correctly.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Obs Stack Status skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by shepard-system/shepard-obs-stack in .claude/skills/obs-status/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Check health of all 6 obs stack services, scrape targets, alerts, and last telemetry.

Queries to run

Use scripts/obs-api.sh to query each service. Run independent checks in parallel.

Step 1: Service health (run all in parallel)

scripts/obs-api.sh grafana /api/health
scripts/obs-api.sh loki /ready
scripts/obs-api.sh prom /-/healthy
scripts/obs-api.sh am /-/healthy
scripts/obs-api.sh tempo /ready

If a command fails or returns empty, the service is down.

Step 2: Prometheus scrape targets

scripts/obs-api.sh prom /api/v1/targets --raw --jq '.data.activeTargets[] | "\(.labels.job)\t\(.health)"'

Step 3: Active alerts

scripts/obs-api.sh am /api/v2/alerts --raw --jq 'if length == 0 then "No active alerts" else .[] | "\(.labels.alertname)\t\(.labels.severity // "?")" end'

Step 4: Last telemetry received

scripts/obs-api.sh prom '/api/v1/query?query=max(shepherd_events_total)' --raw --jq '.data.result[0].value'
scripts/obs-api.sh prom '/api/v1/query?query=max(shepherd_claude_code_cost_usage_USD_total)' --raw --jq '.data.result[0].value'

Output columns

ColumnSource
Serviceservice name
Port3000, 3100, 9090, 9093, 3200, 4317/4318
StatusUP if healthy response, DOWN if empty/error

For output format options (table/csv/json), read .claude/skills/obs-shared/assets/output-formats.md.

Presentation

  1. Service status table (name | port | status)
  2. Scrape targets (job | health)
  3. Active alerts with severity (if any)
  4. Last telemetry — how long ago
  5. If any service is DOWN: suggest docker compose up -d or docker compose logs <service> --tail=20

Signals

GitHub stars
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Last commit
Mar 2026
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Source
github.com/shepard-system/shepard-obs-stack