Modern Practices

Observability Pipeline:
Traces → Metrics → Logs → Alerts
   ↓        ↓        ↓       ↓
[OTel Collector] → [Storage] → [Analysis]

OpenTelemetry Integration

Instrumentation

• Auto-instrumentation

• Manual instrumentation

• Custom Spans

• Context Propagation

Data Collection

• OTel Collector

• Sampling Strategies

• Processing Pipeline

• Export Configurations

Cloud Provider Integration

• AWS X-Ray/CloudWatch

• Azure Monitor

• Google Cloud Operations

Modern Monitoring Stack

Metrics

• Prometheus

• Thanos

• M3DB

• Victoria Metrics

Logging

• Loki

• Elastic Stack

• Vector

• CloudWatch Logs

Tracing

• Jaeger

• Tempo

• Zipkin

• AWS X-Ray

Implementation Examples

OpenTelemetry Collector

receivers:
  otlp:
    protocols:
      grpc:
        endpoint: 0.0.0.0:4317
      http:
        endpoint: 0.0.0.0:4318

processors:
  batch:
    timeout: 1s
    send_batch_size: 1024

exporters:
  prometheus:
    endpoint: "0.0.0.0:8889"
  logging:
  jaeger:
    endpoint: jaeger-collector:14250
    tls:
      insecure: true

service:
  pipelines:
    traces:
      receivers: [otlp]
      processors: [batch]
      exporters: [jaeger]
    metrics:
      receivers: [otlp]
      processors: [batch]
      exporters: [prometheus]

SLO Implementation

Service Level Indicators

• Latency

• Error Rate

• Throughput

• Saturation

Alert Configuration

• Multi-window alerts

• Burn rate alerts

• Page on burn

• Error budgets

Dashboards

• SLO Overview

• Error Budget

• User Journey

• Business Impact