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ops-monitor

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Unified APM and monitoring surface. Polls Datadog, New Relic, and OpenTelemetry backends for active alerts, error traces, and entity health. Use --watch for live polling every 60 seconds. Use --setup to configure monitoring credentials.

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Runtime Context

PREFS="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/plugins/data/ops-ops-marketplace}/preferences.json"
DD_API_KEY=$(jq -r '.datadog_api_key // empty' "$PREFS" 2>/dev/null)
NR_API_KEY=$(jq -r '.newrelic_api_key // empty' "$PREFS" 2>/dev/null)
OTEL_ENDPOINT=$(jq -r '.otel_endpoint // empty' "$PREFS" 2>/dev/null)

Determine $ARGUMENTS mode:

  • Contains --setup → run Setup flow
  • Contains --watch → run Watch mode
  • Otherwise → run Default health check

OPS ► MONITOR

Setup flow (--setup)

Ask which backends to configure:

Which monitoring backends would you like to configure?
[Datadog]  [New Relic]  [OpenTelemetry]  [All three]

For each selected backend, collect credentials via AskUserQuestion free-text input (one at a time, ≤4 options per call):

Datadog:

  1. datadog_api_key — API Key from app.datadoghq.com/organization-settings/api-keys
  2. datadog_app_key — Application Key from app.datadoghq.com/organization-settings/application-keys

New Relic:

  1. newrelic_api_key — User API Key from one.newrelic.com/api-keys
  2. newrelic_account_id — Numeric Account ID from New Relic admin portal

OpenTelemetry:

  1. otel_endpoint — Base URL of your OTEL-compatible backend (e.g., https://otlp.grafana.net)

Write each credential to preferences.json using atomic tmpfile swap:

tmp=$(mktemp)
jq --arg k "$KEY" --arg v "$VALUE" '.[$k] = $v' "$PREFS" > "$tmp" && mv "$tmp" "$PREFS"

Run smoke test after saving:

  • Datadog: curl -sf -H "DD-API-KEY: $DD_API_KEY" -H "DD-APPLICATION-KEY: $DD_APP_KEY" "https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v1/validate" → expect {"valid": true}
  • New Relic: curl -sf -H "Api-Key: $NR_API_KEY" "https://api.newrelic.com/graphql" -d '{"query":"{ actor { user { name } } }"}' → expect data.actor.user
  • OTEL: curl -sf "$OTEL_ENDPOINT/healthz" → expect HTTP 200

Report ✅ or ❌ with status for each backend.

Agent Teams support

If CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1 is set, use Agent Teams when querying multiple backends simultaneously. This enables:

  • Backend probes run in parallel with shared context (e.g., Datadog agent detects latency spike → OTEL agent can correlate with traces)
  • You can steer: "focus on Datadog alerts first, then cross-reference with New Relic"
  • Real-time progress: agents report per-backend as results arrive

Team setup (only when flag is enabled, multiple backends configured):

TeamCreate("monitor-probes")
Agent(team_name="monitor-probes", name="datadog-probe", subagent_type="ops:monitor-agent", ...)
Agent(team_name="monitor-probes", name="newrelic-probe", subagent_type="ops:monitor-agent", ...)
Agent(team_name="monitor-probes", name="otel-probe", subagent_type="ops:monitor-agent", ...)

If the flag is NOT set or only one backend is configured, use a single monitor-agent subagent.

Default health check (no flags)

Spawn monitor-agent via the Agent tool. Display the result as a formatted dashboard:

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 OPS ► MONITOR                       [<timestamp>]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 DATADOG      ✅ healthy (0 alerts)
 NEW RELIC    🔴 2 critical entities
 OTEL         ✅ healthy
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 Total alerts: 2   Severity: CRITICAL

Status icons:

  • ✅ — healthy (0 alerts / configured and reachable)
  • ⚠️ — warning (warn-level alerts present)
  • 🔴 — critical (critical alerts or unreachable)
  • ⬜ — not configured

For each alert or critical entity, display: service name, alert name, and link to the relevant dashboard.

If no backends are configured, show a setup prompt:

No monitoring backends configured. Run /ops:monitor --setup to add Datadog, New Relic, or OTEL.

Watch mode (--watch)

Poll every 60 seconds. On each tick:

while true; do
  RESULT=$(# spawn monitor-agent and capture JSON output)
  # Diff against previous tick
  # Print: timestamp, changed items only
  # 🆕 new alert: <name>
  # ✅ resolved: <name>
  sleep 60
done

Exit on Ctrl-C.

--backend filter

If --backend datadog|newrelic|otel is specified, query and display only that backend.

CLI/API Reference

BackendAuth headerBase URLHealth endpoint
DatadogDD-API-KEY: $key + DD-APPLICATION-KEY: $app_keyhttps://api.datadoghq.com/api/v1/validate
New RelicApi-Key: $keyhttps://api.newrelic.com/graphqlPOST GraphQL query
OTELvaries by backend$OTEL_ENDPOINT/healthz
# Datadog — active alerts
curl -sf \
  -H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}" \
  -H "DD-APPLICATION-KEY: ${DD_APP_KEY}" \
  "https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v1/monitor?monitor_tags=*&with_downtimes=false" \
  | jq '[.[] | select(.overall_state == "Alert" or .overall_state == "Warn")]'

# New Relic — critical entities (GraphQL)
curl -sf \
  -H "Api-Key: ${NR_API_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"{ actor { entitySearch(queryBuilder: {alertSeverity: CRITICAL}) { results { entities { name alertSeverity entityType } } } } }"}' \
  "https://api.newrelic.com/graphql"

# OTEL — health check
curl -sf "${OTEL_ENDPOINT}/healthz"