Signals
- ✓ Golden signals or equivalent service indicators
- ✓ Structured logs with correlation IDs
- ✓ Distributed traces for critical paths
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Observability Plan
Define the signals, dashboards, alerts and diagnostic evidence required to operate confidently.
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Alert quality
- ✓ Alerts map to user impact
- ✓ Actionable thresholds and runbooks
- ✓ Noise and duplicate alerts reviewed
Operational views
- ✓ Service health dashboard
- ✓ Deployment and dependency overlays
- ✓ Capacity and saturation trends
Evidence standard
Do not mark this guide complete because a document exists. Completion requires reviewed configuration, test evidence, named ownership, known-risk decisions and a repeatable operating procedure.