onboarding-summary
This skill generates a live verification report confirming that APM instrumentation is fully operational on a Linux host, checking agent status, process…
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- Agents
- Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, claude.ai and API
- License
- MIT (permissive)
- Pin
- 9cbd518pinned Oct 9, 2026
- Context cost
- about 1,100 tokenswhen the skill loads
- GitHub stars
- 177on datadog-labs/agent-skills
- Scripts
- None found
What it does
“Generate a live Single Step Instrumentation (SSI) onboarding confirmation report for Linux hosts — verifies APM instrumentation is working end-to-end with deep links into the Datadog UI. Only use after agent-install and enable-ssi have both completed.”
Generated summary from the skill's own text
This skill generates a live verification report confirming that APM instrumentation is fully operational on a Linux host, checking agent status, process injection, trace collection, and service visibility in Datadog. It runs diagnostic commands via SSH and Datadog CLI to populate a structured report with verification results and deep links into the Datadog UI.
When to use it
- After completing both agent-install and enable-ssi skills on a Linux host
- When verifying end-to-end APM instrumentation is working correctly
- After resolving all failing checks from verify-ssi or troubleshoot-ssi
- When confirming unified service tags and trace arrival to the backend
When not to
- If any verification or troubleshooting check from prior skills is still failing
- When APM agent has not yet been installed on the target host
- For non-Linux hosts or environments without SSH access to the target
Install
These commands install from the publisher's repository and need no account.
skills CLI
npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill onboarding-summaryInstalls from the repository's default branch, which may have changed since the commit we checked.
GitHub CLI 2.90 or later
gh skill install datadog-labs/agent-skills onboarding-summary@9cbd518922765c46d5d446f09cf03d060dd4b46fInstalls the commit we checked (9cbd518).
Copy by hand
Download the folder at 9cbd518 and put it in .claude/skills/onboarding-summary for Claude Code and in .agents/skills/onboarding-summary for Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode.
Claude Code plugin
/plugin install datadog@claude-plugins-officialThe publisher's plugin in Claude's official marketplace. It may hold more than this skill, and we have not pinned it.
Copy for your agent
A prompt for any coding agent. It installs this skill from GitHub at the pinned commit, copies the files as they are, and runs nothing unless you ask.
Prompt
Install the agent skill "onboarding-summary" by Datadog. Source, pinned to commit 9cbd518922765c46d5d446f09cf03d060dd4b46f: https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills/tree/9cbd518922765c46d5d446f09cf03d060dd4b46f/dd-apm/linux-ssi/onboarding-summary 1. Download that folder at exactly this commit. Do not use the default branch. 2. Copy every file unchanged, keeping the folder structure, into .claude/skills/onboarding-summary/ for Claude Code and .agents/skills/onboarding-summary/ for Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode. Create the folders if they do not exist. 3. Do not edit the files, and do not run any script in the folder unless I ask you to. 4. When you are done, list the files you copied and where you put them. Listing and checks: https://www.agentnative.dev/skills/datadog/onboarding-summary-agent-skills
SKILL.md at the pin
---
name: onboarding-summary
description: Generate a live Single Step Instrumentation (SSI) onboarding confirmation report for Linux hosts — verifies APM instrumentation is working end-to-end with deep links into the Datadog UI. Only use after agent-install and enable-ssi have both completed.
metadata:
version: "1.0.0"
author: datadog-labs
repository: https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills
tags: datadog,apm,linux,ssi,summary,verification
alwaysApply: "false"
---
# APM Onboarding Summary — Linux Host
## Triggers
Invoke this skill when:
- All steps in `verify-ssi` have passed
- All checks in `troubleshoot-ssi` have been resolved
- The user asks "is everything working?", "show me the status", or "confirm APM is set up"
Do NOT invoke this skill if any verification or troubleshooting check is still failing — resolve those first.
---
## Context to resolve before acting
| Variable | How to resolve |
|---|---|
| `HOSTNAME` | `hostname -f` on the target host |
| `DD_HOSTNAME` | Hostname as Datadog sees it — from `sudo datadog-agent status` |
| `SERVICE_NAME` | `DD_SERVICE` value from `/proc/<PID>/environ` or the systemd unit |
| `ENV` | `DD_ENV` value from `/proc/<PID>/environ` or the systemd unit |
| `DD_SITE` | `grep "^site:" /etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml` |
| `SSH_KEY` | Path to SSH private key |
| `SSH_USER` | SSH username |
| `SSH_HOST` | Hostname or IP of the target host |
---
## Prerequisites
### Claude runs
```bash
pup auth status --site <DD_SITE>
```
If valid token — proceed.
ERROR: Not authenticated:
### Claude runs
```bash
pup auth login --site <DD_SITE>
```
> This opens a browser tab for OAuth. Complete the login there — Claude will continue once the command exits.
---
## Collect live confirmation data
Run all of the following. Each populates a row in the final report.
### Claude runs
```bash
# Agent version and status
sudo datadog-agent status 2>&1 | grep -E "Agent \(v|Status:|API Keys status"
# Inject library armed in ld.so.preload
ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i <SSH_KEY> <SSH_USER>@<SSH_HOST> "cat /etc/ld.so.preload"
# Process confirmed injected — launcher + language library in /proc/<PID>/maps
ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i <SSH_KEY> <SSH_USER>@<SSH_HOST> \
"pgrep -a -f '<SERVICE_NAME>' | head -3"
```
Use the PID from above:
```bash
ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i <SSH_KEY> <SSH_USER>@<SSH_HOST> \
"sudo cat /proc/<PID>/maps | grep -E 'launcher|apm-library|datadog'"
# UST vars in process environment
ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i <SSH_KEY> <SSH_USER>@<SSH_HOST> \
"sudo cat /proc/<PID>/environ | tr '\0' '\n' | grep -E 'DD_SERVICE|DD_ENV|DD_VERSION'"
# Agent APM receiver — trace counts
ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i <SSH_KEY> <SSH_USER>@<SSH_HOST> \
"sudo datadog-agent status 2>&1 | grep -A 10 'Receiver (previous minute)'"
# Service visible and traced in APM backend
DD_SITE=<DD_SITE> pup apm services list --env <ENV> --from 1h
# Traces arriving in the last hour
DD_SITE=<DD_SITE> pup traces search --query "service:<SERVICE_NAME>" --from 1h --limit 5
```
**Only if DSM was enabled via `enable-dsm`:**
```bash
# DSM pipeline data for the service
DD_SITE=<DD_SITE> pup metrics query \
--query "avg:data_streams.latency{service:<SERVICE_NAME>,env:<ENV>} by {pathway_type}" \
--from 15m --to now
```
---
## Present the report
Fill in every value from live command output. Do not leave any placeholder unfilled. If a value cannot be confirmed, mark that row as failed and link to `troubleshoot-ssi`.
---
**APM onboarding complete**
| Check | Detail | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Datadog Agent | v`<VERSION>` running on `<HOSTNAME>`, API key valid | OK |
| SSI armed | `/etc/ld.so.preload` contains launcher path | OK |
| Process injected | launcher + language library in `/proc/<PID>/maps` for `<SERVICE_NAME>` | OK |
| Unified Service Tags | `DD_SERVICE=<SERVICE_NAME>` `DD_ENV=<ENV>` `DD_VERSION=<VERSION>` | OK |
| Agent receiving traces | `<N>` trace(s)/min in APM receiver | OK |
| APM service visible | `<SERVICE_NAME>` in env `<ENV>` | OK |
| Traces arriving | `<N>` trace(s) found in the last hour | OK |
| Data Streams (only if enabled) | `data_streams.latency` series for `<SERVICE_NAME>`, or "pending first message" | OK |
---
**Your service in Datadog — click to open:**
Construct each URL by substituting real values. Do not print placeholder URLs.
| View | URL |
|---|---|
| Service overview | `https://app.<DD_SITE>/apm/services/<SERVICE_NAME>?env=<ENV>` |
| Traces explorer | `https://app.<DD_SITE>/apm/traces?query=service:<SERVICE_NAME>%20env:<ENV>` |
| Service map | `https://app.<DD_SITE>/apm/map?env=<ENV>&service=<SERVICE_NAME>` |
| Infrastructure host | `https://app.<DD_SITE>/infrastructure?q=host:<HOSTNAME>` |
| Agent fleet | `https://app.<DD_SITE>/fleet-automation` |
| Data Streams (only if enabled) | `https://app.<DD_SITE>/data-streams` |
---
## Security constraints
- Never write a raw API key into any file or chat message
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