FinOps Academy · Infrastructure Templates

Monitoring Baseline Template

Define health, telemetry, alerts and ownership for a service.

Objective: Ensure new infrastructure is observable from initial deployment.

Practical guidance

Telemetry

01

Define service and dependency health

Apply this point to a real FinOps Academy design, delivery or operational scenario and record the evidence used to validate the outcome.

02

Collect logs, metrics and traces

Apply this point to a real FinOps Academy design, delivery or operational scenario and record the evidence used to validate the outcome.

03

Set retention and access controls

Apply this point to a real FinOps Academy design, delivery or operational scenario and record the evidence used to validate the outcome.

04

Map signals to service objectives

Apply this point to a real FinOps Academy design, delivery or operational scenario and record the evidence used to validate the outcome.

Practical guidance

Response

01

Create actionable alert thresholds

Apply this point to a real FinOps Academy design, delivery or operational scenario and record the evidence used to validate the outcome.

02

Assign routing and escalation ownership

Apply this point to a real FinOps Academy design, delivery or operational scenario and record the evidence used to validate the outcome.

03

Link alerts to runbooks

Apply this point to a real FinOps Academy design, delivery or operational scenario and record the evidence used to validate the outcome.

04

Test alerts before production approval

Apply this point to a real FinOps Academy design, delivery or operational scenario and record the evidence used to validate the outcome.