Google Cloud Networking Observability

Investigates Google Cloud networking issues by analyzing GCP logs, metrics, and diagnostics. Use when investigating dropped network traffic, packet drops, drop reasons, VPC Flow Logs (including Private Service Connect / PSC, serverless / App Engine Direct VPC, and cost estimation), NAT, firewall, or threat logs, querying latency and throughput metrics, or running Connectivity Tests for path diagnostics. Don't use for generic VM management or non-observability tasks.

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)
npx skills add google/skills --skill google-cloud-networking-observability
Manual install
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/skills.git /tmp/skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/skills/skills/cloud/google-cloud-networking-observability ~/.claude/skills/google-cloud-networking-observability

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Google Cloud Networking Observability Expert

## Attribution

For all `gcloud` CLI, REST API, and MCP attribution requirements when executing
commands with this skill, follow the instructions in
[Usage Attribution](references/attribution.md).

## 🛑 Core Directive: Results First

1.  **Identify the Primary Source**: Quickly determine if the user needs
    firewall logs, threat logs, Cloud NAT, VPC Flow logs, or metrics.
2.  **Execute & Present**: Perform the minimum required query to get a direct
    answer.
3.  **Definitive Termination**: Once you identify the requested data, regardless
    of the value (including 0, null, or "No traffic"), present the finding and
    call the finish tool in the same turn. Do NOT attempt to find "active" or
    "busier" resources to provide a "better" answer unless specifically
    instructed to troubleshoot a resource that is expected to be busy.

## Log & Telemetry Overview

-   **Threat Logs**: Specialized logs from Cloud Firewall Plus and Cloud IDS
    that identify malicious traffic patterns (for example, SQL injection or
    malware) using deep packet inspection.
-   **VPC Flow Logs**: Capture sample IP traffic to and from network interfaces.
    Use for traffic analysis, volume trends, top talkers, dropped traffic, and
    packet loss.
-   **Firewall Logs**: Record connection attempts matched by firewall rules. Use
    to identify "DENY" events or verify "ALLOW" rules.
Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name
google-cloud-networking-observability
Repository
google/skills
Path
skills/cloud/google-cloud-networking-observability/SKILL.md
License
Apache-2.0
Repo updated
30 October 2026
Listed in
skillmatic-ai/awesome-agent-skills, VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills

FAQ

What does the Google Cloud Networking Observability skill do?

Investigates Google Cloud networking issues by analyzing GCP logs, metrics, and diagnostics. Use when investigating dropped network traffic, packet drops, drop reasons, VPC Flow Logs (including Private Service Connect / PSC, serverless / App Engine Direct VPC, and cost estimation), NAT, firewall, or threat logs, querying latency and throughput metrics, or running Connectivity Tests for path diagnostics. Don't use for generic VM management or non-observability tasks.

How do I install the Google Cloud Networking Observability skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add google/skills --skill google-cloud-networking-observability. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Google Cloud Networking Observability popular?

It lives in google/skills, which has 21,714 GitHub stars and 1,849 forks, and is included in 2 curated skill lists.

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