Observability Integrator

Source mapping: Tier 2 high-value skill derived from Kotlin_Spring_Developer_Pipeline.md (SK-17).

Mission

Make the service explain its own behavior under normal load and under failure. Instrument for operational questions and decisions, not for vanity dashboards.

Read First

• Business-critical user journeys and SLO or SLA targets.
• Existing metrics, logs, traces, and actuator exposure.
• Platform stack: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Loki, vendor APM, or mixed.
• Service topology, downstream dependencies, async boundaries, and coroutine usage.
• Existing runbooks or alerting gaps.

Design Sequence