IDP Observability and Operations
Build production-grade observability for your Internal Developer Platform using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, and SLO-based monitoring.
Lab Overview
Implement comprehensive observability for a Kubernetes-based Internal Developer Platform. You'll deploy a full observability stack — metrics, logs, and traces — then layer on structured alerting, operational dashboards, and SLO tracking with error budgets.
Working on a real Minikube cluster, you'll install kube-prometheus-stack for metrics and alerting, Loki and Promtail for log aggregation, and the OpenTelemetry Collector with Jaeger for distributed tracing. You'll define PrometheusRules for IDP health alerts, build Grafana dashboards, write SLO recording rules, and simulate SLO burn events — skills that map directly to day-2 platform operations.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Deploy kube-prometheus-stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager) with Helm
- Aggregate platform logs using Loki and Promtail
- Collect distributed traces with OpenTelemetry Collector and Jaeger
- Write PrometheusRules and configure Alertmanager routing
- Build operational Grafana dashboards for IDP health
- Define SLOs with recording rules and visualize error budgets
What You'll Learn
Deploy kube-prometheus-stack using Helm with pinned chart versions
Query platform metrics using PromQL in Grafana
Aggregate Kubernetes logs centrally with Loki and Promtail
Collect and visualize distributed traces with OpenTelemetry and Jaeger
Write PrometheusRule manifests for IDP health alerting
Configure Alertmanager routing for on-call notification workflows
Build multi-panel Grafana dashboards for operational visibility
Define SLOs using Prometheus recording rules and visualize error budgets
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- Playgrounds for experiments
- Multi-VM realistic scenarios
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- Managed AWS Account included
- Pre-configured environments
- Real-world cloud scenarios
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- Active community forum
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- Automatic environment provisioning
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