Projects04 Observability
Enterprise Observability Platform
A multi-signal platform for metrics, logs, and traces across Kubernetes and infrastructure, with shared dashboards and alerts.
Problem
Metrics, logs, and traces lived in separate tools, so a service did not look the same from Kubernetes as it did from the infrastructure under it.
Solution
Built a centralized observability platform that standardizes collection, storage, dashboards, alerting, and golden-signal views across applications and infrastructure.
Architecture
- Applications
- Collection
- Metrics
- Logs
- Traces
- Grafana
- Alerting
Technology
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Loki
- OpenTelemetry
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Helm
Engineering decisions
- The same labels and units across environments so dashboards stay reusable.
- High-cardinality series that would make queries and storage unusable if left unbounded.
- Retention that keeps enough history without storing everything forever.
- A collector and backend layout that still answers queries when one piece is down.
- An onboarding path that does not invent a new dashboard style for every team.
Automation
New services take the shared collectors, dashboards, and alert rules instead of starting from a blank Grafana folder.
Reliability
Backends and Grafana are deployed so a single node failure does not hide the platform from operators.
Security
Dashboards and datasources follow role-based access. Secrets for remote write and object storage stay out of the client.