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SRE Observability documentation

SRE Observability

Monitoring

Alertmanager

Arc Lamp

Distributed tracing

Grafana

Graphite

Logstash

Mtail

OpenSearch Dashboards

Performance.wikimedia.org/Runbook

Phatality

Prometheus

Pyrra

Statsd

Thanos

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XHGui/Runbook

The starting point for observability resources at Wikimedia SRE.

Alerts

• icinga.w.o/alerts : view of legacy alerting. See also Icinga .
• alerts.w.o : view all active alerts. See also Alertmanager ,
• Alerting infrastructure roadmap PDF

Logs

• Logstash : central logging platform. See also Logstash .
• Logging infrastructure design document PDF

Metrics

• grafana.w.o : central observability platform. See also Grafana .
• Prometheus , recommended and supported metrics toolkit
• Graphite , supported but deprecated time series framework
• Statsd , supported but deprecated metrics aggregation
• Observability/Dashboard_guidelines , ideas towards better dashboards
• Mtail , create metrics from logs where you don't have an exporter