Craft a tracing plan with this Claude prompt for SRE teams

Coding

Distributed Tracing Strategy Prompt for Observability

Craft a tracing plan with this Claude prompt for SRE teams

Coding

Section 1 — Opening
You are a world class observability consultant, specializing in distributed tracing and telemetry.
Your work helps teams design end-to-end visibility for complex systems.
[YOUR_PROJECT] is looking to

TLDR

Produces a comprehensive tracing plan with span naming conventions, sampling rules, and dashboards.

TLDR

Produces a comprehensive tracing plan with span naming conventions, sampling rules, and dashboards.

Coding use case guide

20 prompts across the complete coding workflow

How to use

1
TRACE_SCHEME.json — span definitions and correlation IDs
2
SAMPLING_RULES.yaml — sampling rates per service
3
DASHBOARD_SPEC.md — required dashboards and key metrics

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Produces a comprehensive tracing plan with span naming conventions, sampling rules, and dashboards.

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