Observability Stack

An Observability Stack combines logging, metrics, and tracing to provide insights into application health, performance, and behavior in production.

Tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger form a typical stack for full visibility.

Deploy an Observability Stack when:

• Running distributed or microservices applications.
• Needing to debug issues in production environments.
• Monitoring SLAs and alerting on anomalies.
• Scaling systems where visibility is key to reliability.

Note: Start with OpenTelemetry for standardized instrumentation.

Define SLOs early to guide alerting thresholds.

Regularly review and prune metrics to avoid noise.