You are rolling out monitoring for a Claude-based deployment and must complete the specification steps...

Instrumentation must be driven by an explicit measurement specification. The team must first define the metrics and evaluation slices required to detect performance, cost, quality, safety, or reliability failures. Slices should include representative traffic, adversarial inputs, user segments, tools, and relevant content categories. SLOs and error budgets must also be established before instrumentation because they determine required measurements, aggregation windows, and acceptable failure levels. Alert thresholds cannot be tuned until normal-state data has been collected. Dashboards and on-call documentation depend on the final metric definitions and observed operational behavior. Anthropic supports metrics, event, and trace export through OpenTelemetry, but telemetry is useful only when tied to measurable success and operating objectives. Claude Code monitoring