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Observability platform design

Build comprehensive observability into your systems and culture

Design and implement a complete observability platform that provides deep insights into system behavior, performance, and user experience through metrics, logs, and traces.

105 minutes
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Overview

Design and implement a complete observability platform that provides deep insights into system behavior, performance, and user experience through metrics, logs, and traces.

Learning objectives

  • Design observability architecture
  • Implement three pillars
  • Create alerting strategy
  • Build debugging workflows

Instructions

Build observability platform:

1. Assess current visibility gaps 2. Design metrics, logs, traces strategy 3. Implement collection and storage 4. Create dashboards and alerts 5. Train team on usage

Steps

1

Gap assessment

20 minutes

Identify observability blind spots

2

Architecture design

30 minutes

Design three pillars implementation

3

Implementation plan

30 minutes

Build collection and analysis tools

4

Alerting strategy

20 minutes

Create smart alerting rules

5

Training program

5 minutes

Enable team effectiveness

Pro tips

  • •Start with golden signals
  • •Implement distributed tracing early
  • •Focus on actionable alerts
  • •Build debugging playbooks

Example outcome

Complete observability platform with 100% service coverage, 5-minute MTTI, distributed tracing, and self-healing capabilities.

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