Monitoring & Observability

Core Workflow: Observability Implementation

Use this decision tree to determine your starting point:

Are you setting up monitoring from scratch?
├─ YES → Start with "1. Design Metrics Strategy"
└─ NO → Do you have an existing issue?
    ├─ YES → Go to "9. Troubleshooting & Analysis"
    └─ NO → Are you improving existing monitoring?
        ├─ Alerts → Go to "3. Alert Design"
        ├─ Dashboards → Go to "4. Dashboard & Visualization"
        ├─ SLOs → Go to "5. SLO & Error Budgets"
        ├─ Tool selection → Read references/tool_comparison.md
        └─ Using Datadog? High costs? → Go to "7. Datadog Cost Optimization & Migration"