Observability Distributed Tracing And eBPF Strategy

Use When

• Root cause analysis is slow in distributed systems
• Service mesh or network-layer behavior is hard to debug

Workflow

1. Define trace propagation and correlation requirements.
2. Instrument critical paths with spans and semantic attributes.
3. Add RED/USE metrics and high-cardinality-safe labels.
4. Use eBPF-based telemetry for network and syscall visibility where supported.
5. Build SLO-linked dashboards and alerting runbooks.

Required Checks