app-platform-troubleshooting
An agent skill by digitalocean-labs, from digitalocean-labs/do-app-platform-skills. Tags: app-platform, debugging, digitalocean, logs, performance, troubleshooting.
What it does
Debug running App Platform applications by accessing containers, analyzing logs, running diagnostics, and applying fixes. Use when apps fail to deploy, crash at runtime, have connectivity issues, or need performance diagnosis.
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add digitalocean-labs/do-app-platform-skills --skill app-platform-troubleshooting
Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/digitalocean-labs/do-app-platform-skills
cp -r do-app-platform-skills/skills/troubleshooting ~/.claude/skills/app-platform-troubleshooting
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Source
- Repository
- digitalocean-labs/do-app-platform-skills (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- skills/troubleshooting/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Collection
- do-app-platform
- Updated
- 2026-09-21
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- troubleshooting-application-failures — Troubleshoots failing applications by discovering and analyzing CloudWatch log groups to identify error patterns, root causes, and actionable solutions.