APM and Observability

Purpose

Design and implement observability for distributed systems using metrics, traces, and logs with OpenTelemetry, SLI/SLO frameworks, and actionable alerting.

Agent Protocol

Trigger

Exact user phrases: "APM", "observability", "Datadog", "New Relic", "Grafana", "Prometheus", "OpenTelemetry", "distributed tracing", "SLI", "SLO", "error budget", "application performance monitoring", "RUM", "synthetics", "instrumentation".

Input Context

Before activating, verify:

• Stack/language (for SDK selection: Java, Python, Go, Node.js, .NET).
• Infrastructure type (Kubernetes, VMs, serverless).
• Existing monitoring tools (if migrating from legacy).
• Budget constraints (observability tools can be expensive).
• Compliance requirements (log retention, audit trails, PII masking).