obs-open-source-observability-stack

To configure Prometheus and Alertmanager for observability, you implement minimal coherent artifacts including scrape configurations and routing rules, then validate them for syntax and semantics to ensure actionable alerting and clear ownership.

To avoid high-cardinality labels in Loki, enforce low-cardinality metric and label design during configuration, ensuring logs and traces are correlated without overloading spans or creating ad hoc configurations.

Yes, you can use OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines to wire metrics, logs, and traces into Grafana by configuring Tempo for traces and Loki for logs, then creating operator-focused dashboard panels for visualization.

You validate Prometheus and Alertmanager configurations by applying configuration validation checks that verify syntax and semantics, producing validation commands and stack config changes for approved implementation stories.

Yes, this observability stack approach works for new backend services by onboarding observability through Prometheus metrics, adding API latency dashboards in Grafana, and implementing actionable alerting thresholds.

You update a story decision log when implementing observability stack changes to satisfy requirements for tracking configuration modifications, recording validation commands, and documenting dashboards and alerts notes for approved stories.