Better Stack

chart-alerts

Guide for creating and managing Better Stack chart alerts. Load when asked to set up alerting, create alerts on charts, or configure monitoring thresholds.

chart-generation

Complete reference for chart types, units, and settings on Better Stack dashboards. Load right before creating charts - after the queries are built with the query skills.

chart-styling

Better Stack chart styling and advanced settings reference - series colors and order, number chart coloring thresholds, heatmap color categories, gauge bounds, y-axis tuning, custom units, and the per-key settings table with cross-setting gotchas. Load when configuring how a chart looks beyond defaults, or when unsure which settings key applies to a chart type.

collector-queries

Proven metrics queries for Better Stack Collector sources (the source tool's Platform "Collector") - per-host node_* metrics, per-container and per-service container_resources_*, requests and errors by destination, TCP health, and the container-level saturation checks that host averages hide. Load after metrics-query when the source platform is Collector, for health checks, resource questions and service dashboards.

connect-betterstack

Connect the Better Stack MCP server and check that it works. Use when the user installs the Better Stack plugin or asks to set it up, when a Better Stack request comes in but no Better Stack tools (such as `incidents`, `monitors`, `query`, `documentation`) are available, or when a Better Stack tool fails with "unauthorized", 401 or "needs authentication". Tells the user exactly how to connect in the app they are using (ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity, Claude Code, Claude chat and Cowork, Claude Tag in Slack). Once connected, suggests what to set up next from what the account has, such as Claude investigating every new incident or fixing errors on a schedule. Also use when the user asks what Better Stack can do for them.

dashboard-builder

Guide for building Better Stack dashboards. Load when asked to create a dashboard or add multiple charts in Better Stack.

dashboard-layout

Definitive guide for Better Stack dashboard layout — grid system, layout rules, row templates, planning process, coordinate math, section manipulation. Load when creating or modifying dashboard layouts.

errors-query

Load BEFORE querying Better Stack exception or error-pattern data with SQL - exception counts, trends, first/last occurrence, affected users, raw stack traces. Contains instructions for querying errors/exceptions.

grafana-import

Import Grafana dashboards from grafana.com templates. Translates PromQL to ClickHouse. Load when user asks to import, convert, or recreate a Grafana dashboard in Better Stack.

health-check

Quick health assessment of servers or services (databases, webservers) from their Better Stack telemetry. Checks metrics, logs, dependencies for anomalies. Use for "how is Nginx and Redis doing?" questions, not incident diagnosis.

investigate-incident

Investigate a Better Stack incident, alert or outage report end to end. Find the incident, check who is on call, drill into the metrics, logs, traces and errors around it, correlate with recent releases, and post a short situation report. Use when someone asks why something is down, slow or erroring, mentions a Better Stack incident, monitor or alert, or when Claude is working as an on-call first responder in an incident channel (for example in Claude Tag).

logs-query

MUST load BEFORE writing any Better Stack logs or web-events SQL query. Contains required syntax for raw-event queries - without this, queries will fail. Compatible with Explore. Also load when the user asks how raw-event queries look.