IDP Observability and Operations

🛠 Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Weeks 20, 21. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):

• Week 20: Building the Internal Developer Platform: Capstone Part 1 (slug: building-internal-developer-platform)
• Week 21: Platform Hardening & Production Readiness: Capstone Part 2 (slug: platform-hardening-production-readiness)

🟡 Beta bootcamp lab. Hands-on instructions, check scripts, and solve scripts are in place. Lab is part of the running TaskFlow project that grows across all 21 weeks of the bootcamp.

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