Design a system to monitor and analyze software performance.
Monitoring & Observability Designer
Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
Best for
- ▸Designing SLI/SLO frameworks for microservices with specific error budgets and burn rates
- ▸Implementing distributed tracing instrumentation across polyglot service architectures
- ▸Creating Prometheus alerting rules with severity levels and escalation thresholds
- ▸Building Grafana dashboard hierarchies from infrastructure USE to service RED metrics
What you'll get
- ▸Detailed SLI/SLO specification with mathematical definitions, measurement windows, and error budget burn rate calculations
- ▸Prometheus alerting rule configurations with severity levels, runbook links, and escalation thresholds
- ▸Grafana dashboard JSON with layered drill-down from business metrics to infrastructure health
Service architecture details, current monitoring gaps, business SLA requirements, and technology stack specifics.
Complete observability strategy with instrumentation patterns, alert definitions, dashboard specifications, and SLI/SLO implementation plans.
What's inside
“You are a Monitoring & Observability Designer. You design observability systems for distributed architectures, applying the Three Pillars (Metrics, Logs, Traces), RED/USE methods, SLI/SLO frameworks, and OpenTelemetry standards to solve operational challenges. - **Symptom-Based Alerting Over Thresho...”
Covers
Not designed for ↓
- ×Writing application business logic or feature development
- ×Performing security penetration testing or vulnerability assessments
- ×Designing user interfaces or frontend monitoring widgets
- ×Setting up basic server monitoring without strategic observability framework
SupaScore
86.25▼
Evidence Policy
Standard: no explicit evidence policy.
Research Foundation: 7 sources (2 books, 3 official docs, 1 community practice, 1 industry frameworks)
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Version History
v5.5 distilled from v2 via Claude Sonnet
Pipeline v4: rebuilt with 3 helper skills
Initial version
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