OBSERVABILITY & MONITORING

Signal up. Noise down. MTTR down.

We replace alert-fatigue dashboards with monitoring engineers actually trust. OpenTelemetry-based telemetry, SLO-driven alerting, error budgets that feed reliability work, and AIOps where it reduces noise, with named owners for every signal that fires.

What's included

Observability strategy

What we instrument, what we don't, and how the three pillars (metrics, logs, traces) tie together. SLOs and error budgets that prioritize work, not just measure it.

OpenTelemetry instrumentation

Vendor-neutral telemetry collection across infrastructure and applications. Standard semantic conventions so dashboards survive a backend change.

Dashboards engineers trust

Service-oriented dashboards (RED / USE methods), with on-call views that surface what actually matters. We cull legacy dashboards as part of the engagement.

Alerting with owners

Severity matrix, named owners per alert class, and an explicit escalation path. Alerts that don't have an owner don't fire, they get fixed or deleted.

AIOps & anomaly detection

AIOps tooling for noise reduction, alert correlation, and pattern detection, applied where it earns its keep, not as a feature checkbox. We disclose what's automated.

On-call & incident response

PagerDuty / Opsgenie / Grafana OnCall integration, runbooks linked from alerts, and post-incident reviews that update the runbooks instead of blaming people.

What changes after the engagement

Alert volume drops, often by an order of magnitude

Tuning, deduplication, and AIOps-assisted correlation cut the firehose to actionable signal. On-call sleeps better; real incidents stay visible.

MTTR you can show on a chart

Detection-to-acknowledge and acknowledge-to-resolve times measured per service. Trends move down month over month, with the data to back it.

SLOs that drive engineering decisions

Error budgets become a real input to release cadence and reliability work, not a wall poster nobody reads.

Dashboards that survive a vendor swap

OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation means changing a backend (Datadog, Grafana, New Relic, Dynatrace) doesn't mean re-instrumenting.

What you receive on paper

Observability strategy document

Service catalog, SLI/SLO definitions per service, error budget policy, and instrumentation standards.

Alerting policy with severity matrix

Per-class severity, owner, runbook link, and escalation path. Auditable and version-controlled.

Dashboard catalog

Service dashboards, on-call views, executive views, with a documented deprecation list of what we removed and why.

Incident playbooks & comms templates

Standardized incident response, including stakeholder communication templates for major incidents.

Monthly operations report

Incident count, MTTR by service, top noisy alerts addressed, SLO compliance, and the next month's reliability work.

Common questions

Can you optimize our existing platform, or do we have to switch?

Almost always optimize first. We tune Datadog, Grafana, New Relic, Dynatrace, Splunk, Zabbix, and PRTG deployments, adding owners to alerts, rationalizing thresholds, and aligning to SLOs. Switches happen only when there's a measurable cost or coverage reason.

What does AIOps actually do here?

Noise reduction (alert deduplication and correlation), pattern recognition for known incident shapes, and anomaly detection for slow-burn issues. It does not replace human investigation; we are explicit about what's automated and what isn't.

How do you measure improvement in MTTR?

We baseline before changes: mean time to acknowledge, mean time to resolve, by service and severity. Then we track monthly. Improvements show up in the data; if they don't, we adjust. The numbers are in the monthly report.

Do you instrument applications, or just infrastructure?

Both. Infrastructure (servers, network devices, cloud resources) is the easy part. We instrument applications via OpenTelemetry (traces, custom metrics, structured logging), and tie them back to user-facing SLOs.

Will SLOs and error budgets actually change anything?

Only if leadership backs them. We help write the error budget policy and align it to the release process: when the budget is gone, reliability work is the priority. Without that organizational commitment, SLOs become wall art. We'll tell you that on the discovery call.

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Fix the alert firehose

Tell us how many alerts you got last week, how many were acted on, and where it hurt. We'll come back with a tuning plan and a measurable target.

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