#32RUNTIMEOBSERVE
Metrics & Alerting
Collection, dashboards, thresholds
Medium
Overview
Collect system and application metrics, visualize in dashboards, and alert on threshold breaches.
Why It Matters
Know when things degrade. Alert before users complain.
The Risk
Without metrics, you're flying blind. Problems escalate from slow to broken before detection. Alert fatigue means real problems get ignored.
Implementation Components
A complete implementation of this capability includes:
- Metrics collection from all services (Prometheus)
- Key metrics: latency, error rate, throughput, saturation
- Dashboards showing current and historical state
- Alert rules on meaningful thresholds
- Alert routing and escalation
- Runbooks linked to alerts
Implementation Pattern
- 1Choose metrics system
- 2Instrument application
- 3Create dashboards
- 4Define alert thresholds
Pipeline Coverage
This continuous capability monitors and applies to the following pipeline phases:
STAGERELEASE
Tool Examples
These are examples, not endorsements. Choose what fits your context.
Dependencies
Enables (unlocks)
Same Layer
Other capabilities in this continuous layer
- •#30 Central Logging
- •#31 LLM Log Analysis
- •#33 Error Tracking
- •#34 LLM Error Analysis
- •#35 Uptime Monitoring
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