Observability and monitoring are crucial for understanding and managing complex systems.
This segment describes organizational and practical guardrails for observability and monitoring. It includes naming and tagging conventions, ownership, review mechanisms, access models, and standards for dashboards and alerts. The focus is on sustainable usage and quality assurance in operations rather than selecting specific tools.
A policy that defines a service's tolerable error budget and the organizational actions triggered when that budget is exceeded.
A conceptual guide for systematically capturing, correlating and analysing telemetry (metrics, traces, logs) to enable fast debugging and performance optimisation.
A Service Level Objective (SLO) defines specific performance expectations for a service.