Observability, Logging & Monitoring Requirements
Purpose
To enable rapid incident detection, investigation, and resolution while supporting data-driven optimization through comprehensive instrumentation and telemetry.
Scope
Health checks, structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics collection, monitoring dashboards, alerting, and correlation standards.
Requirements
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| REQ-OBS-1 | Health & Readiness Signals | Each product MUST expose health and readiness signals that allow platform tooling to determine if it is functioning correctly and ready to receive traffic. |
| REQ-OBS-2 | Structured & Correlated Logs | Logs MUST be structured and correlated (e.g., correlation IDs) so requests and flows across multiple products can be traced end-to-end. |
| REQ-OBS-3 | Comprehensive Metrics | Metrics MUST cover reliability, latency, throughput, saturation, and key domain KPIs for each product, with agreed SLOs. |
| REQ-OBS-4 | Event-Driven Observability | Products MUST emit sufficient events/logs to support incident detection, investigation, auditing, and data-as-a-product scenarios without needing ad-hoc instrumentation. |
Reference Template
TBD — a reference example for this standard is pending (to be crafted).