Kubernetes & AKS Academy · Production operations

Observability Plan

Define the signals, dashboards, alerts and diagnostic evidence required to operate confidently.

DevOps, SRE and platform engineersOperational evidence required
01

Signals

  • ✓ Golden signals or equivalent service indicators
  • ✓ Structured logs with correlation IDs
  • ✓ Distributed traces for critical paths
02

Alert quality

  • ✓ Alerts map to user impact
  • ✓ Actionable thresholds and runbooks
  • ✓ Noise and duplicate alerts reviewed
03

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.