observability-setup

Application observability instrumentation is achieved by adopting standard OpenTelemetry to capture structured logs, metrics, and traces, enabling end-to-end visibility and quick issue diagnosis across your services.

Correlating trace IDs across logs and metrics requires a collector-based topology, which enforces best practices for tracing context propagation to ensure reliable end-to-end visibility and accurate issue diagnosis.

Defining SLIs and SLOs for alerting workflows involves standardizing your application instrumentation to surface user-visible pain, allowing you to set reliable service level objectives and trigger actionable alerts.

OpenTelemetry works for standardizing observability across multiple services by guiding uniform instrumentation of structured logs, metrics, and traces into a central collector topology for comprehensive visibility.

You can use a collector-based topology to manage observability exports, as this approach enforces best practices for routing structured logs, metrics, and tracing data captured via standard OpenTelemetry instrumentation.

Structured logs and metrics are needed to diagnose system behavior issues because they provide the reliable data foundation required to understand application state, correlate trace IDs, and quickly identify root causes.