Observability & Monitoring¶
Designing an Enterprise Observability Platform
Built centralized observability across 200+ servers — unifying metrics, logs, and traces into a single operational view with actionable alerting and dashboards.
My Role
Role: Platform Engineering Lead — Observability Scope: platform architecture across 200+ servers; stack selection (Prometheus · Grafana · Mimir · Loki · Tempo · OpenTelemetry); alerting & SLOs Ownership: architecture → deployment → operational adoption
Key Contributions
- Deployed Prometheus + Grafana + Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, Tempo for tracing
- Standardized on OpenTelemetry for instrumentation
- Built alerting and SLOs — alerts that fire for a reason, not noise
- Added capacity planning and performance analysis workflows
Lessons Learned
Unified observability beats a pile of dashboards. Alerts must be actionable; SLOs matter more than raw graphs.