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Define service objectives, critical journeys and failure modes
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Monitoring and Observability Architecture
Design telemetry pipelines that convert metrics, logs, traces and events into reliable operational decisions.
Objective: Deliver actionable observability with controlled cost, retention, ownership and response workflows.
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Business context and requirements
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Identify telemetry producers, consumers and regulatory retention
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Separate diagnostic evidence from high-value operational signals
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Architecture and design decisions
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Design collection, transformation, storage and query tiers
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Standardise correlation, resource context and alert metadata
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Create dashboards and alerts tied to service objectives
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Security, cost and operating model
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Secure telemetry access and protect sensitive log content
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Control ingestion, retention and query costs
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Define alert ownership, tuning, escalation and evidence retention
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Validation, resilience and evolution
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Test detection coverage using controlled failure scenarios
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Measure alert quality, response time and telemetry gaps
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Continuously tune sampling, retention and dashboards
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