Deepgram Observability

Prerequisites

• An approved metrics/tracing/logging backend, data-retention policy, and on-call owner.
• Redaction rules that exclude audio, transcript text, API keys, participant identifiers, and other sensitive metadata.

Examples

Emit aggregate metrics for request count, latency, model, status class, streaming duration, and rate-limit headroom. Trigger a non-sensitive staging failure to verify alert routing, then record the correlation ID and remediation time—never audio samples, transcripts, or credentials.

Overview

Full observability stack for Deepgram: Prometheus metrics (request counts, latency histograms, audio processed, cost tracking), OpenTelemetry distributed tracing, structured JSON logging with Pino, Grafana dashboard JSON, and AlertManager rules.

Four Pillars