Monitoring & Observability
Complete Observability
Metrics, Logs & Alerting
From low-level host telemetry to service-level dashboards, I set up the stack so your team can see what is happening, investigate why it happened, and act before users report it.
What I set up:
- Metrics — a store sized for host and service telemetry, with the queries you actually run
- Logs — centralized collection and search across every host
- Dashboards — service health, capacity, and the numbers your team works from
- Uptime checks — external probes for sites, APIs, certificates and critical endpoints
- Alerting — notifications routed to the channel you already read, with a runbook attached
The goal is not more graphs. It is that the monitoring notices a failure before a customer does, and that a page only fires when there is something to do about it.
From Metrics to Evidence
A dashboard is useful only when it answers a question. I start with the failures you need to detect, work backwards to the signals that reveal them, and then verify each signal with a real probe.
That means an endpoint monitor must receive a request, a log rule must match the resulting line, and an alert must reach the destination. Configuration that merely exists is not evidence that the path works.
What the Stack Looks Like
| Layer | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Metrics store | Storage and query engine for host and service metrics |
| Collection agents | Metric and log shipping from every host |
| Log store | Centralized log ingestion and search |
| Dashboards | Dashboards, annotations, and alert rules |
| Uptime monitoring | Black-box checks of public and internal services |
| Status page | Public status page sourced from live monitor state |
Operational Boundaries
Observability does not make a system more available by itself. It shortens the interval between failure and recognition, and gives recovery a record to work from. Pair monitoring with the deployment, rollback, and backup practices on the Infrastructure as Code & DevOps service page.
Need an assessment of what you are already running? The Infrastructure Audit approach tests whether the settings produce the telemetry they claim to.