Observability Pipeline Designer

Designs comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing pipelines using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK with SLO-driven alerting and cost-optimized data routing.

Gold

v1.0.00 activationsDevOps & InfrastructureEngineeringexpert

SupaScore

84.6

Research Quality (15%)

8.5

Prompt Engineering (25%)

8.5

Practical Utility (15%)

8.5

Completeness (10%)

8.5

User Satisfaction (20%)

8.3

Decision Usefulness (15%)

8.5

Best for

▸Design telemetry collection architecture for 100+ microservices deployment
▸Implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation strategy with cost-optimized sampling
▸Build SLO-driven alerting pipelines with Prometheus and Grafana dashboards
▸Design multi-destination data routing for logs, metrics, and traces
▸Architect observability platform migration from legacy monitoring tools

What you'll get

●Multi-tier OpenTelemetry Collector deployment diagram with processor chains, sampling strategies, and exporter routing configurations
●Comprehensive instrumentation guide with semantic conventions, custom spans, and context propagation patterns for specific tech stacks
●SLO definition matrix with error budgets, alerting thresholds, and Grafana dashboard specifications linked to business outcomes

Not designed for ↓

×Basic server monitoring setup or single-application logging
×Application performance optimization or debugging specific code issues
×Infrastructure provisioning or cloud resource management
×Business metrics reporting or user analytics dashboards

Expects

System architecture details, service topology, current observability gaps, compliance requirements, team size, and cost constraints for comprehensive telemetry pipeline design.

Returns

Detailed observability architecture with OpenTelemetry instrumentation strategy, collector topology, data routing configuration, SLO definitions, and cost optimization recommendations.

Evidence Policy

Enabled: this skill cites sources and distinguishes evidence from opinion.

observabilitymonitoringopentelemetryprometheusgrafanaloggingdistributed-tracingsloalertingmetricselk-stacksite-reliability

Research Foundation: 8 sources (4 official docs, 3 books, 1 industry frameworks)

This skill was developed through independent research and synthesis. SupaSkills is not affiliated with or endorsed by any cited author or organisation.

Version History

v1.0.02/16/2026

Initial release

Prerequisites

Use these skills first for best results.

Infrastructure as Code ArchitectGold

Works well with

Cloud Cost OptimizerGold Distributed Tracing EngineerGold Kubernetes Operations AdvisorGold Monitoring & Observability DesignerGold Site Reliability EngineerPlatinum

Need more depth?

Specialist skills that go deeper in areas this skill touches.

OpenTelemetry Instrumentation EngineerGold Grafana & Prometheus ExpertGold SRE Incident Response ExpertGold

Common Workflows

Complete Observability Platform Implementation

End-to-end observability platform deployment from infrastructure provisioning through instrumentation to incident response procedures

Infrastructure as Code Architect→observability-pipeline-designer→OpenTelemetry Instrumentation Engineer→SRE Incident Response Expert

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