#observability

The procedure that gives a new project its whole infrastructure from generators, in the order the stacks depend on each other: log first, then storage and broker, then the gateway, then the application — with the public steps kept manual.

Every project gets its own OpenTelemetry Collector, Elasticsearch and Kibana from one command, showing data on dashboards from the first start, by owning the data directory, starting services in the order they need, and keeping the official mappings on one node.

Release Workflow: Development to Production is the procedure every change of mine follows from my laptop to production — which steps I automated, which I deliberately left to a person, why each step sits where it does, how I diagnose a failed release, and how I recover from it.

Logs, traces and metrics from a dozen containers pushed over OTLP into one deliberately dumb collector, then read in Kibana — with a disk queue so a restart loses nothing, audit events counted exactly once, and the rule that telemetry must never become a failure point.