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database-migrations-migration-observability

Builds observability infrastructure for database migrations, including CDC pipelines, alerting, metrics, and dashboard synchronization.

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Activation

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Migration monitoring, CDC, and observability infrastructure
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Advanced

Key capabilities

  • Create monitoring solutions for database migrations
  • Implement Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines
  • Collect complete metrics for migrations
  • Set up automated alerting systems
  • Generate visual dashboards for migration observability

How it works

This skill provides code examples and guidance to build observability infrastructure for database migrations, including real-time data synchronization via CDC, metrics collection, alerting, and dashboarding.

Inputs & outputs

You give it
Database connection strings, Kafka broker configurations, Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboard definitions
You get back
Observable MongoDB migrations, CDC pipelines, Prometheus instrumentation, Grafana dashboards, replication lag tracking

When to use database-migrations-migration-observability

  • Set up migration monitoring
  • Configure CDC pipeline observability
  • Create Grafana dashboards for migrations
  • Implement anomaly detection for data sync

About this skill

Migration Observability and Real-time Monitoring

You are a database observability expert specializing in Change Data Capture, real-time migration monitoring, and enterprise-grade observability infrastructure. Create comprehensive monitoring solutions for database migrations with CDC pipelines, anomaly detection, and automated alerting.

Use this skill when

  • Working on migration observability and real-time monitoring tasks or workflows
  • Needing guidance, best practices, or checklists for migration observability and real-time monitoring

Do not use this skill when

  • The task is unrelated to migration observability and real-time monitoring
  • You need a different domain or tool outside this scope

Context

The user needs observability infrastructure for database migrations, including real-time data synchronization via CDC, comprehensive metrics collection, alerting systems, and visual dashboards.

Requirements

$ARGUMENTS

Instructions

1. Observable MongoDB Migrations

const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');
const { createLogger, transports } = require('winston');
const prometheus = require('prom-client');

class ObservableAtlasMigration {
    constructor(connectionString) {
        this.client = new MongoClient(connectionString);
        this.logger = createLogger({
            transports: [
                new transports.File({ filename: 'migrations.log' }),
                new transports.Console()
            ]
        });
        this.metrics = this.setupMetrics();
    }

    setupMetrics() {
        const register = new prometheus.Registry();

        return {
            migrationDuration: new prometheus.Histogram({
                name: 'mongodb_migration_duration_seconds',
                help: 'Duration of MongoDB migrations',
                labelNames: ['version', 'status'],
                buckets: [1, 5, 15, 30, 60, 300],
                registers: [register]
            }),
            documentsProcessed: new prometheus.Counter({
                name: 'mongodb_migration_documents_total',
                help: 'Total documents processed',
                labelNames: ['version', 'collection'],
                registers: [register]
            }),
            migrationErrors: new prometheus.Counter({
                name: 'mongodb_migration_errors_total',
                help: 'Total migration errors',
                labelNames: ['version', 'error_type'],
                registers: [register]
            }),
            register
        };
    }

    async migrate() {
        await this.client.connect();
        const db = this.client.db();

        for (const [version, migration] of this.migrations) {
            await this.executeMigrationWithObservability(db, version, migration);
        }
    }

    async executeMigrationWithObservability(db, version, migration) {
        const timer = this.metrics.migrationDuration.startTimer({ version });
        const session = this.client.startSession();

        try {
            this.logger.info(`Starting migration ${version}`);

            await session.withTransaction(async () => {
                await migration.up(db, session, (collection, count) => {
                    this.metrics.documentsProcessed.inc({
                        version,
                        collection
                    }, count);
                });
            });

            timer({ status: 'success' });
            this.logger.info(`Migration ${version} completed`);

        } catch (error) {
            this.metrics.migrationErrors.inc({
                version,
                error_type: error.name
            });
            timer({ status: 'failed' });
            throw error;
        } finally {
            await session.endSession();
        }
    }
}

2. Change Data Capture with Debezium

import asyncio
import json
from kafka import KafkaConsumer, KafkaProducer
from prometheus_client import Counter, Histogram, Gauge
from datetime import datetime

class CDCObservabilityManager:
    def __init__(self, config):
        self.config = config
        self.metrics = self.setup_metrics()

    def setup_metrics(self):
        return {
            'events_processed': Counter(
                'cdc_events_processed_total',
                'Total CDC events processed',
                ['source', 'table', 'operation']
            ),
            'consumer_lag': Gauge(
                'cdc_consumer_lag_messages',
                'Consumer lag in messages',
                ['topic', 'partition']
            ),
            'replication_lag': Gauge(
                'cdc_replication_lag_seconds',
                'Replication lag',
                ['source_table', 'target_table']
            )
        }

    async def setup_cdc_pipeline(self):
        self.consumer = KafkaConsumer(
            'database.changes',
            bootstrap_servers=self.config['kafka_brokers'],
            group_id='migration-consumer',
            value_deserializer=lambda m: json.loads(m.decode('utf-8'))
        )

        self.producer = KafkaProducer(
            bootstrap_servers=self.config['kafka_brokers'],
            value_serializer=lambda v: json.dumps(v).encode('utf-8')
        )

    async def process_cdc_events(self):
        for message in self.consumer:
            event = self.parse_cdc_event(message.value)

            self.metrics['events_processed'].labels(
                source=event.source_db,
                table=event.table,
                operation=event.operation
            ).inc()

            await self.apply_to_target(
                event.table,
                event.operation,
                event.data,
                event.timestamp
            )

    async def setup_debezium_connector(self, source_config):
        connector_config = {
            "name": f"migration-connector-{source_config['name']}",
            "config": {
                "connector.class": "io.debezium.connector.postgresql.PostgresConnector",
                "database.hostname": source_config['host'],
                "database.port": source_config['port'],
                "database.dbname": source_config['database'],
                "plugin.name": "pgoutput",
                "heartbeat.interval.ms": "10000"
            }
        }

        response = requests.post(
            f"{self.config['kafka_connect_url']}/connectors",
            json=connector_config
        )

3. Enterprise Monitoring and Alerting

from prometheus_client import Counter, Gauge, Histogram, Summary
import numpy as np

class EnterpriseMigrationMonitor:
    def __init__(self, config):
        self.config = config
        self.registry = prometheus.CollectorRegistry()
        self.metrics = self.setup_metrics()
        self.alerting = AlertingSystem(config.get('alerts', {}))

    def setup_metrics(self):
        return {
            'migration_duration': Histogram(
                'migration_duration_seconds',
                'Migration duration',
                ['migration_id'],
                buckets=[60, 300, 600, 1800, 3600],
                registry=self.registry
            ),
            'rows_migrated': Counter(
                'migration_rows_total',
                'Total rows migrated',
                ['migration_id', 'table_name'],
                registry=self.registry
            ),
            'data_lag': Gauge(
                'migration_data_lag_seconds',
                'Data lag',
                ['migration_id'],
                registry=self.registry
            )
        }

    async def track_migration_progress(self, migration_id):
        while migration.status == 'running':
            stats = await self.calculate_progress_stats(migration)

            self.metrics['rows_migrated'].labels(
                migration_id=migration_id,
                table_name=migration.table
            ).inc(stats.rows_processed)

            anomalies = await self.detect_anomalies(migration_id, stats)
            if anomalies:
                await self.handle_anomalies(migration_id, anomalies)

            await asyncio.sleep(30)

    async def detect_anomalies(self, migration_id, stats):
        anomalies = []

        if stats.rows_per_second < stats.expected_rows_per_second * 0.5:
            anomalies.append({
                'type': 'low_throughput',
                'severity': 'warning',
                'message': f'Throughput below expected'
            })

        if stats.error_rate > 0.01:
            anomalies.append({
                'type': 'high_error_rate',
                'severity': 'critical',
                'message': f'Error rate exceeds threshold'
            })

        return anomalies

    async def setup_migration_dashboard(self):
        dashboard_config = {
            "dashboard": {
                "title": "Database Migration Monitoring",
                "panels": [
                    {
                        "title": "Migration Progress",
                        "targets": [{
                            "expr": "rate(migration_rows_total[5m])"
                        }]
                    },
                    {
                        "title": "Data Lag",
                        "targets": [{
                            "expr": "migration_data_lag_seconds"
                        }]
                    }
                ]
            }
        }

        response = requests.post(
            f"{self.config['grafana_url']}/api/dashboards/db",
            json=dashboard_config,
            headers={'Authorization': f"Bearer {self.config['grafana_token']}"}
        )

class AlertingSystem:
    def __init__(self, config):
        self.config = config

    async def send_alert(self, title, message, severity, **kwargs):
        if 'slack' in self.config:
            await self.send_slack_alert(title, message, severity)

        if 'email' in self.config:
            await self.send_email_alert(title, message, 

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How it compares

This skill provides specific code patterns for integrating observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana into database migration workflows, rather than generic monitoring setups.

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