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Strategic collection of telemetry from software and infrastructure to make behavior, performance and operational state measurable.
Instrumentation is the practice of collecting telemetry (metrics, logs, traces) from software and infrastructure to make behavior and performance measurable. It provides the foundation for observability, monitoring and incident response. Well-designed instrumentation simplifies debugging, capacity planning and enables data-driven operational decisions.
Proportion of failed requests of total traffic, critical for SLAs.
P50/P95/P99 measurements to assess end-user latency.
Requests per second for capacity planning and scaling.
Using OpenTelemetry SDKs to capture traces and metrics in a Java-based service.
Introduce a naming schema for metrics for better comparability and alert definition.
Integrating traces into CI pipelines to detect performance regressions before rollout.
Define metric and tracing conventions
Select and integrate SDKs and collector
Collect, validate and visualize initial telemetry
Iteratively expand coverage and fine-tune alerts