observability

To instrument observability for new code, apply stable field contracts and emit structured logs, traces, and metrics using OpenTelemetry. This enforces RED metrics and provides guidelines for building dashboards and runbooks to ensure reliable monitoring across code boundaries.

You can use OpenTelemetry to collect, correlate, and visualize telemetry data across code boundaries. It serves as the core tool for instrumenting logs, traces, and metrics consistently, allowing you to standardize observability data and define stable field contracts.

Build dashboards and alerts by instrumenting RED metrics and enforcing stable field contracts across your services. Using OpenTelemetry to standardize logs, traces, and metrics provides the necessary telemetry data to define guidelines for dashboards and runbooks, enabling rapid incident response.

Structured logs and traces are needed for observability instrumentation to standardize telemetry data across code boundaries. By defining stable field contracts and using OpenTelemetry, you ensure consistent collection and correlation of logs, traces, and metrics for reliable dashboards and alerts.