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Observability implementation plan

Design comprehensive observability for your systems

Create an observability strategy that provides deep insights into system behavior. This activity helps you move beyond basic monitoring to true system understanding.

45 minutes
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Overview

Create an observability strategy that provides deep insights into system behavior. This activity helps you move beyond basic monitoring to true system understanding.

Learning objectives

  • Design metrics, logs, and traces strategy
  • Create alerting framework
  • Plan dashboard architecture

Instructions

Plan observability:

1. Define key metrics and SLIs 2. Design logging strategy 3. Plan distributed tracing 4. Create alerting rules 5. Design dashboard hierarchy

Steps

1

Metrics design

20 minutes

Define what to measure

2

Instrumentation planning

15 minutes

Plan logs and traces

3

Visualization design

10 minutes

Create dashboard plans

Pro tips

  • Focus on user-facing metrics
  • Avoid alert fatigue
  • Use structured logging

Example outcome

Observability plan with metrics taxonomy, logging standards, and dashboard designs

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