# Maintainx Observability

> Implement comprehensive observability for MaintainX integrations. Use when setting up monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting for MaintainX API integrations. Trigger with phrases like "maintainx monitoring", "maintainx logging", "maintainx metrics", "maintainx observability", "maintainx alerts".

- Skill: `tools-only/maintainx-observability` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 3 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add tools-only/maintainx-observability`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/tools-only/maintainx-observability/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Integrations & APIs
- License: MIT
- Author: tools-only (https://skillmd.com/u/tools-only)
- Updated: 2026-09-08
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/tools-only/maintainx-observability

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# MaintainX Observability

## Overview

Implement comprehensive observability (metrics, logging, tracing) for MaintainX integrations to ensure reliability and quick issue resolution.

## Prerequisites

- MaintainX integration deployed
- Monitoring platform (Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch)
- Log aggregation solution

## Three Pillars of Observability

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    Observability Stack                               │
│                                                                      │
│  ┌─────────────────┐  ┌─────────────────┐  ┌─────────────────┐     │
│  │     METRICS     │  │     LOGGING     │  │    TRACING      │     │
│  │                 │  │                 │  │                 │     │
│  │ - API latency   │  │ - Request logs  │  │ - Request flow  │     │
│  │ - Error rates   │  │ - Error details │  │ - Dependencies  │     │
│  │ - Throughput    │  │ - Audit trail   │  │ - Bottlenecks   │     │
│  │ - Cache hits    │  │ - Debug info    │  │ - Service map   │     │
│  └────────┬────────┘  └────────┬────────┘  └────────┬────────┘     │
│           │                    │                    │               │
│           └────────────────────┼────────────────────┘               │
│                                │                                    │
│                       ┌────────▼────────┐                          │
│                       │   DASHBOARDS    │                          │
│                       │   & ALERTS      │                          │
│                       └─────────────────┘                          │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

## Instructions

### Step 1: Metrics Collection

```typescript
// src/observability/metrics.ts
import { Counter, Histogram, Gauge, Registry } from 'prom-client';

// Create metrics registry
const registry = new Registry();

// API request metrics
const apiRequestsTotal = new Counter({
  name: 'maintainx_api_requests_total',
  help: 'Total number of MaintainX API requests',
  labelNames: ['endpoint', 'method', 'status'],
  registers: [registry],
});

const apiRequestDuration = new Histogram({
  name: 'maintainx_api_request_duration_seconds',
  help: 'MaintainX API request duration in seconds',
  labelNames: ['endpoint', 'method'],
  buckets: [0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10],
  registers: [registry],
});

const apiErrorsTotal = new Counter({
  name: 'maintainx_api_errors_total',
  help: 'Total number of MaintainX API errors',
  labelNames: ['endpoint', 'error_type', 'status_code'],
  registers: [registry],
});

// Cache metrics
const cacheHitsTotal = new Counter({
  name: 'maintainx_cache_hits_total',
  help: 'Total cache hits',
  labelNames: ['cache_type'],
  registers: [registry],
});

const cacheMissesTotal = new Counter({
  name: 'maintainx_cache_misses_total',
  help: 'Total cache misses',
  labelNames: ['cache_type'],
  registers: [registry],
});

// Rate limit metrics
const rateLimitRemaining = new Gauge({
  name: 'maintainx_rate_limit_remaining',
  help: 'Remaining API rate limit',
  registers: [registry],
});

// Business metrics
const workOrdersCreated = new Counter({
  name: 'maintainx_work_orders_created_total',
  help: 'Total work orders created via API',
  labelNames: ['priority'],
  registers: [registry],
});

// Instrumented client
class InstrumentedMaintainXClient {
  private client: MaintainXClient;

  async getWorkOrders(params?: any) {
    const timer = apiRequestDuration.startTimer({
      endpoint: '/workorders',
      method: 'GET',
    });

    try {
      const response = await this.client.getWorkOrders(params);

      apiRequestsTotal.inc({
        endpoint: '/workorders',
        method: 'GET',
        status: '200',
      });

      return response;
    } catch (error: any) {
      const status = error.response?.status || 'unknown';

      apiRequestsTotal.inc({
        endpoint: '/workorders',
        method: 'GET',
        status: String(status),
      });

      apiErrorsTotal.inc({
        endpoint: '/workorders',
        error_type: error.name,
        status_code: String(status),
      });

      throw error;
    } finally {
      timer();
    }
  }

  async createWorkOrder(data: any) {
    const response = await this.client.createWorkOrder(data);

    workOrdersCreated.inc({
      priority: data.priority || 'NONE',
    });

    return response;
  }
}

// Metrics endpoint
export function getMetricsEndpoint() {
  return async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
    res.set('Content-Type', registry.contentType);
    res.end(await registry.metrics());
  };
}
```

### Step 2: Structured Logging

```typescript
// src/observability/logger.ts
import winston from 'winston';

// Create structured logger
const logger = winston.createLogger({
  level: process.env.LOG_LEVEL || 'info',
  format: winston.format.combine(
    winston.format.timestamp(),
    winston.format.errors({ stack: true }),
    winston.format.json()
  ),
  defaultMeta: {
    service: 'maintainx-integration',
    environment: process.env.NODE_ENV,
  },
  transports: [
    new winston.transports.Console(),
    // Add file or cloud transports as needed
  ],
});

// Log context for request tracing
interface LogContext {
  requestId: string;
  userId?: string;
  tenantId?: string;
  operation: string;
}

// Contextual logger
class ContextLogger {
  private context: LogContext;

  constructor(context: LogContext) {
    this.context = context;
  }

  info(message: string, meta?: any) {
    logger.info(message, { ...this.context, ...meta });
  }

  warn(message: string, meta?: any) {
    logger.warn(message, { ...this.context, ...meta });
  }

  error(message: string, error?: Error, meta?: any) {
    logger.error(message, {
      ...this.context,
      ...meta,
      error: error ? {
        name: error.name,
        message: error.message,
        stack: error.stack,
      } : undefined,
    });
  }

  // API-specific logging
  apiRequest(endpoint: string, method: string, params?: any) {
    this.info('MaintainX API request', {
      endpoint,
      method,
      params: this.redactSensitive(params),
    });
  }

  apiResponse(endpoint: string, status: number, duration: number) {
    this.info('MaintainX API response', {
      endpoint,
      status,
      durationMs: duration,
    });
  }

  apiError(endpoint: string, error: Error, status?: number) {
    this.error('MaintainX API error', error, {
      endpoint,
      status,
    });
  }

  private redactSensitive(obj: any): any {
    if (!obj) return obj;

    const redacted = { ...obj };
    const sensitiveFields = ['apiKey', 'password', 'token', 'secret'];

    sensitiveFields.forEach(field => {
      if (redacted[field]) {
        redacted[field] = '[REDACTED]';
      }
    });

    return redacted;
  }
}

export { logger, ContextLogger };
```

### Step 3: Distributed Tracing

```typescript
// src/observability/tracing.ts
import { trace, SpanKind, SpanStatusCode } from '@opentelemetry/api';
import { NodeTracerProvider } from '@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node';
import { Resource } from '@opentelemetry/resources';
import { SemanticResourceAttributes } from '@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions';

// Initialize tracer
const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
  resource: new Resource({
    [SemanticResourceAttributes.SERVICE_NAME]: 'maintainx-integration',
    [SemanticResourceAttributes.SERVICE_VERSION]: process.env.npm_package_version,
  }),
});

provider.register();

const tracer = trace.getTracer('maintainx-integration');

// Traced client
class TracedMaintainXClient {
  private client: MaintainXClient;

  async getWorkOrders(params?: any) {
    return tracer.startActiveSpan('maintainx.getWorkOrders', {
      kind: SpanKind.CLIENT,
      attributes: {
        'maintainx.endpoint': '/workorders',
        'maintainx.method': 'GET',
        'maintainx.params.limit': params?.limit,
      },
    }, async (span) => {
      try {
        const response = await this.client.getWorkOrders(params);

        span.setAttributes({
          'maintainx.response.count': response.workOrders.length,
          'maintainx.response.hasMore': !!response.nextCursor,
        });

        span.setStatus({ code: SpanStatusCode.OK });
        return response;
      } catch (error: any) {
        span.setStatus({
          code: SpanStatusCode.ERROR,
          message: error.message,
        });
        span.recordException(error);
        throw error;
      } finally {
        span.end();
      }
    });
  }

  async createWorkOrder(data: any) {
    return tracer.startActiveSpan('maintainx.createWorkOrder', {
      kind: SpanKind.CLIENT,
      attributes: {
        'maintainx.endpoint': '/workorders',
        'maintainx.method': 'POST',
        'maintainx.workorder.priority': data.priority,
      },
    }, async (span) => {
      try {
        const response = await this.client.createWorkOrder(data);

        span.setAttributes({
          'maintainx.workorder.id': response.id,
        });

        span.setStatus({ code: SpanStatusCode.OK });
        return response;
      } catch (error: any) {
        span.setStatus({
          code: SpanStatusCode.ERROR,
          message: error.message,
        });
        span.recordException(error);
        throw error;
      } finally {
        span.end();
      }
    });
  }
}
```

### Step 4: Health Checks

```typescript
// src/observability/health.ts

interface HealthCheck {
  name: string;
  check: () => Promise<boolean>;
  critical: boolean;
}

interface HealthStatus {
  status: 'healthy' | 'degraded' | 'unhealthy';
  timestamp: string;
  checks: Record<string, { status: boolean; latencyMs: number }>;
}

class HealthChecker {
  private checks: HealthCheck[] = [];

  register(check: HealthCheck) {
    this.checks.push(check);
  }

  async getStatus(): Promise<HealthStatus> {
    const results: Record<string, { status: boolean; latencyMs: number }> = {};
    let hasCriticalFailure = false;
    let hasAnyFailure = false;

    for (const check of this.checks) {
      const start = Date.now();
      let status = false;

      try {
        status = await check.check();
      } catch (error) {
        status = false;
      }

      results[check.name] = {
        status,
        latencyMs: Date.now() - start,
      };

      if (!status) {
        hasAnyFailure = true;
        if (check.critical) {
          hasCriticalFailure = true;
        }
      }
    }

    return {
      status: hasCriticalFailure ? 'unhealthy' : hasAnyFailure ? 'degraded' : 'healthy',
      timestamp: new Date().toISOString(),
      checks: results,
    };
  }
}

// Register MaintainX health checks
const healthChecker = new HealthChecker();

healthChecker.register({
  name: 'maintainx_api',
  critical: true,
  check: async () => {
    const client = new MaintainXClient();
    await client.getUsers({ limit: 1 });
    return true;
  },
});

healthChecker.register({
  name: 'maintainx_cache',
  critical: false,
  check: async () => {
    // Check Redis connection
    const redis = getRedisClient();
    await redis.ping();
    return true;
  },
});

export { healthChecker, HealthStatus };
```

### Step 5: Alerting Rules

```yaml
# prometheus/alerts.yml
groups:
  - name: maintainx-alerts
    rules:
      # High error rate
      - alert: MaintainXHighErrorRate
        expr: |
          sum(rate(maintainx_api_errors_total[5m])) /
          sum(rate(maintainx_api_requests_total[5m])) > 0.05
        for: 5m
        labels:
          severity: critical
        annotations:
          summary: High MaintainX API error rate
          description: "Error rate is {{ $value | humanizePercentage }} (threshold: 5%)"

      # High latency
      - alert: MaintainXHighLatency
        expr: |
          histogram_quantile(0.95, rate(maintainx_api_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) > 2
        for: 5m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: High MaintainX API latency
          description: "P95 latency is {{ $value }}s (threshold: 2s)"

      # Rate limit approaching
      - alert: MaintainXRateLimitLow
        expr: maintainx_rate_limit_remaining < 10
        for: 1m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: MaintainX rate limit nearly exhausted
          description: "Only {{ $value }} requests remaining"

      # API unreachable
      - alert: MaintainXAPIDown
        expr: |
          up{job="maintainx-integration"} == 0 or
          absent(maintainx_api_requests_total)
        for: 2m
        labels:
          severity: critical
        annotations:
          summary: MaintainX integration is down
          description: "No API requests recorded for 2 minutes"

      # Low cache hit rate
      - alert: MaintainXLowCacheHitRate
        expr: |
          sum(rate(maintainx_cache_hits_total[1h])) /
          (sum(rate(maintainx_cache_hits_total[1h])) + sum(rate(maintainx_cache_misses_total[1h]))) < 0.5
        for: 1h
        labels:
          severity: info
        annotations:
          summary: Low cache hit rate
          description: "Cache hit rate is {{ $value | humanizePercentage }}"
```

### Step 6: Dashboard Configuration

```json
{
  "dashboard": {
    "title": "MaintainX Integration Dashboard",
    "panels": [
      {
        "title": "Request Rate",
        "type": "graph",
        "targets": [
          {
            "expr": "sum(rate(maintainx_api_requests_total[5m])) by (endpoint)",
            "legendFormat": "{{endpoint}}"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Error Rate",
        "type": "graph",
        "targets": [
          {
            "expr": "sum(rate(maintainx_api_errors_total[5m])) by (status_code)",
            "legendFormat": "HTTP {{status_code}}"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Latency P95",
        "type": "graph",
        "targets": [
          {
            "expr": "histogram_quantile(0.95, rate(maintainx_api_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (endpoint)",
            "legendFormat": "{{endpoint}}"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Cache Hit Rate",
        "type": "stat",
        "targets": [
          {
            "expr": "sum(rate(maintainx_cache_hits_total[1h])) / (sum(rate(maintainx_cache_hits_total[1h])) + sum(rate(maintainx_cache_misses_total[1h])))"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Work Orders Created (24h)",
        "type": "stat",
        "targets": [
          {
            "expr": "sum(increase(maintainx_work_orders_created_total[24h]))"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}
```

## Output

- Prometheus metrics collection
- Structured JSON logging
- Distributed tracing setup
- Health check endpoints
- Alerting rules configured
- Dashboard definition

## Key Metrics to Monitor

| Metric | Threshold | Action |
|--------|-----------|--------|
| Error rate | >5% | Investigate API issues |
| P95 latency | >2s | Check network/caching |
| Rate limit remaining | <10 | Reduce request rate |
| Cache hit rate | <50% | Review caching strategy |

## Resources

- [OpenTelemetry Documentation](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/)
- [Prometheus Best Practices](https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/)
- [MaintainX API Documentation](https://maintainx.dev/)

## Next Steps

For incident response, see `maintainx-incident-runbook`.