Observability & Monitoring
You can't fix what you can't see. Monitoring that tells you what actually matters.
What I Do
Most monitoring setups fall into one of two traps: too many dashboards nobody looks at, or too few alerts that miss real problems. I build observability stacks that answer the questions your team actually needs answered. No more, no less.
Metrics & Dashboards
- Prometheus setup with proper service discovery and retention
- Thanos or Cortex for long-term storage and multi-cluster aggregation
- Grafana dashboards that tell a story, not just display numbers in pretty colors
- Custom metrics and instrumentation guidance
Logging
- ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) or Loki + Grafana
- Structured logging standards and implementation
- Log aggregation, parsing, and retention policies
- Cost-effective logging: what to keep, what to sample, what to drop
Alerting & SLOs
- SLO/SLI definition aligned with business objectives
- Error budget policies and burn rate alerting
- Alert routing: PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Slack integration
- Alert fatigue reduction. Fewer, better alerts. Your on-call team will thank you
Tracing & Profiling
- Distributed tracing with Jaeger or Tempo
- OpenTelemetry instrumentation
- Performance profiling and bottleneck identification
- Correlating metrics, logs, and traces for fast root cause analysis
Who It’s For
- Teams flying blind, running production without knowing if it’s healthy
- Organizations drowning in alerts that have lost all meaning
- Companies needing SLOs for customer contracts or internal reliability targets
- Anyone who’s been surprised by an outage that monitoring should have caught (the worst kind of surprise)