Full-Scale Observability Architecture & Pipeline Implementation
Our flagship engagement delivers a complete observability infrastructure blueprint and hands-on rollout: OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines, distributed tracing with Tempo, long-term metric storage with Cortex and Mimir, unified structured logging with Loki, and tailored service level objective (SLO) dashboards.
Who This Engagement Serves
Engineering organizations managing distributed microservices, polyglot backend systems, or high-throughput transaction pipelines suffering from blind spots and noisy dashboards.
Measurable Technical Outcomes
Deterministic visibility across complex microservices, sub-second trace retrieval across billions of spans, 40-60% telemetry volume reduction via sampling and aggregation, and incident triage reduced to minutes.
Engagement Scope & Boundaries
Architecture design of Collector topology, agent configuration, storage backend sizing (Cortex/Mimir/Tempo/Loki), trace context propagation across RPC boundaries, and tailored SLO alert graphs.
What Is Included
- • Discovery assessment of existing runtime services, telemetry agents, and logging outputs
- • OpenTelemetry Collector fleet design (gateway and agent sidecar topologies)
- • High-cardinality metric sanitization, recording rules, and storage sizing for Cortex/Mimir
- • Distributed trace context propagation across Go, Java, Node.js, Python, and Rust services
- • Tail-based sampling pipeline configuration to retain errors and latency outliers
- • Unified Grafana dashboard layouts mapped directly to critical user journeys
- • Alertmanager routing matrix, deduplication rules, and runbook definitions
- • Comprehensive knowledge transfer sessions and architectural runbooks
What Is Excluded
- • Third-party software licensing fees and cloud infrastructure billing
- • Full application business-logic rewrites outside telemetry instrumentation hooks
- • 24/7 Level-1 on-call support outside scheduled engagement consultation windows
Step-by-Step Architectural Process
01. Telemetry Audit & Signal Discovery
We map your existing application topology, examine current log rates, audit Prometheus metrics scrapers, and profile network bottlenecks.
02. Pipeline & Storage Architecture Design
We design your target state: OpenTelemetry Collector topologies, storage tiering for Tempo and Cortex/Mimir, retention policies, and auth models.
03. Pilot Service Instrumentation & Gateway Deployment
We implement trace context propagation and metric instrumentation on your core services, proving collector stability and sampling accuracy.
04. Fleet-Wide Rollout & Cardinality Tuning
We expand collectors across all clusters, tune scrape intervals, prune unbounded metric labels, and calibrate tail-based sampling rules.
05. SLO Dashboards & Incident Runbooks
We build actionable Grafana views, burn-rate alerting hierarchies, and train your staff on root-cause triage through trace-metric correlation.
Ready to Structure Your Telemetry Pipeline?
Speak directly with our senior telemetry architects in New Taipei City to align on scope, deliverables, and implementation schedules.