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Observability: from an alert to a root cause

Three signals, each with its own store, brought together in one place. Metrics tell you something is wrong, logs tell you what happened, and traces tell you where in a chain of services the time went. It uses the common open-source stack.

PrometheusGrafanaLoki / ELKTempo / JaegerOpenTelemetryAlertmanagerPagerDuty / Slack

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Here is what's inside:

  • Where the data flows
  • From alert to root cause
  • Why each tool sits where it does
  • Where observability goes wrong
  • The interview talk track
  • What I'd improve next

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