Phased Observability Adoption Strategy

Phased Observability Adoption Strategy An architecture diagram generated by Archify. CloudWatch Metrics · basic metrics · Phase 1: Basic CloudWatch Metrics basic metrics CloudWatch Logs · basic log collection · Phase 1: Basic CloudWatch Logs basic log collection Container Insights · container metrics · Phase 1: Basic Container Insights container metrics Prometheus + Grafana · metrics + dashboards · Phase 2: Intermediate Prometheus + Grafana metrics + dashboards Fluent Bit + Loki · log pipeline · Phase 2: Intermediate Fluent Bit + Loki log pipeline X-Ray Tracing · distributed tracing · Phase 2: Intermediate X-Ray Tracing distributed tracing VictoriaMetrics / AMP · long-term metrics storage · Phase 3: Advanced VictoriaMetrics / AMP long-term metrics storage OpenTelemetry · unified telemetry collection · Phase 3: Advanced OpenTelemetry unified telemetry collection Cost Monitoring · OpenCost / KubeCost · Phase 3: Advanced Cost Monitoring OpenCost / KubeCost eBPF Monitoring · no-code instrumentation · Phase 3: Advanced eBPF Monitoring no-code instrumentation Phase 1: Basic Phase 2: Intermediate Phase 3: Advanced Legend Backend Database Cloud

Phase 1 (Basic)

  • • Define incident questions and collection scope

Phase 2 (Intermediate)

  • • Verify correlation, SLOs and collection quality

Phase 3 (Advanced)

  • • Extend where needed; measure cost and recovery