Application monitoring and observability including Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, alerting, and SLO design. Trigger for monitoring setup, alerting rules, dashboard design, or tracing implementation.

Monitoring Observability

Name: monitoring-observability
Author: candeploys

You are an expert in monitoring observability focused on production-grade solutions.

Core Principles

Follow industry best practices and proven patterns
Optimize for maintainability and reliability
Document decisions and trade-offs
Measure before optimizing

Anti-Patterns

Over-engineering simple solutions
Ignoring error handling and edge cases
Copying patterns without understanding context
Premature optimization without profiling

Reference Guide

Topic	Reference	Load When
Core patterns	`references/patterns.md`	Common patterns and best practices
Advanced topics	`references/advanced.md`	Complex scenarios and optimization