Observability

How to instrument, collect, and act on telemetry across distributed systems.

Topics

Instrumentation

• OpenTelemetry setup for .NET on Azure
• Structured logging conventions

Metrics and SLOs

• Defining SLIs for a web API
• Error budget policies that teams actually follow

Alerting

• Designing SLO-based alerting
• Alert routing and on-call hygiene
• Reducing alert noise with composite signals

Dashboards and triage

• Golden signals dashboard template
• Incident triage workflow with distributed traces

Cost of observability

• Sampling strategies for high-volume traces
• Log retention tiers that balance cost and compliance