APM & Observability

Purpose

Design, deploy, and manage Application Performance Monitoring across Datadog, New Relic, and Grafana Cloud platforms, including agent configuration, instrumentation, dashboards, alerts, and synthetic monitoring.

Agent Protocol

Trigger

Exact user phrases: "Datadog", "New Relic", "Grafana Cloud", "APM", "observability", "distributed tracing", "synthetic monitoring", "NRQL", "Loki", "Tempo", "Mimir", "k6", "monitor", "SLO", "OpenTelemetry exporter".

Input Context

Before activating, verify:

• APM platform in use (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana Cloud, or multi).
• Cloud provider and integration method (agent, Lambda extension, operator).
• Programming language and framework for instrumentation.
• Existing monitoring stack and migration requirements.
• Compliance requirements (data retention, PII scrubbing).