Practical Guide to Application Observability in 10 Steps
summary
A practical 10-step guide to application observability showing how metrics, logs and tracing work together with concrete examples: measuring database scans and locks, monitoring replication delays, counting proxy requests and errors, and alerting on crashes via Sentry. Includes a minimal four-line code example, recommends the Prometheus+Grafana stack, advises not to index logs when search isn’t needed, and shares OVH operational experience and use cases.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:11A 10-step Observability guide
- 0:34Understand Observability
- 2:47Monitoring: Does the system work?
- 5:20Identify Infrastructure Metrics
- 12:12Identify Business KPIs
- 12:32Business is Business
- 13:54Tips: Maximize Business Impact
- 14:35Logs & Metrics
- 19:43Logs to Metrics
- 22:535 - Log events & Post Mortem
- 27:01Identify the component
- 27:41Get Crash Reports right
- 33:06Track your Code in production
- 33:32Tooling & Dashboards
- 34:21Pick yours
- 35:20Optimize & Enjoy
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