📊Kubernetes Observability Stack

OVERVIEW

Production-grade Kubernetes observability platform using Prometheus Operator, Grafana dashboards, Alertmanager routing, and custom SLO/SLA tracking — deployed via Helm with GitOps-driven configuration.

ARCHITECTURE

graph TB
  subgraph K8S["Kubernetes Cluster"]
    APPS[Application Pods]
    PROM[Prometheus Operator]
    GM[Grafana]
    AM[Alertmanager]
    LOKI[Loki]
    TEMPO[Tempo]
  end
  subgraph NOTIFY["Notifications"]
    SLACK[Slack]
    PAGERDUTY[PagerDuty]
    EMAIL[Email]
  end
  APPS -->|metrics| PROM
  APPS -->|logs| LOKI
  APPS -->|traces| TEMPO
  PROM --> GM & AM
  LOKI --> GM
  TEMPO --> GM
  AM --> SLACK & PAGERDUTY & EMAIL

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KEY HIGHLIGHTS

• Prometheus Operator CRDs for declarative ServiceMonitor/PodMonitor
• Golden signals dashboards: latency, traffic, errors, saturation
• Multi-window SLO alerting with burn rate policies
• Loki log aggregation with structured JSON parsing
• Distributed tracing via Tempo with Grafana Explore integration