Project Guides

Recommended project-level rollout patterns

Guides are not templates to copy blindly. They are reference architectures to reduce rollout mistakes and enforce consistent observability behavior across teams.

Available Guides

How To Use a Guide

  1. Match the guide to your deployment topology.
  2. Copy only the instrumentation and config patterns that fit your environment.
  3. Keep your internal naming and ownership model.
  4. Validate with production-like traffic before broad rollout.

Shared Rollout Policy

Stage 1: Controlled Start

  • Enable telemetry in one environment (staging recommended).
  • Validate auth + ingest + tags.
  • Confirm no unacceptable overhead.

Stage 2: Expand by Tier

  • Instrument critical services first.
  • Add supporting services second.
  • Add low-criticality services last.

Stage 3: Operational Hardening

  • Key rotation policy documented.
  • Sampling and retention policy defined.
  • Runbooks for ingestion failures and noisy signals.

Minimum Guide Requirements

Every production-ready guide should define:

  • Environment variable strategy.
  • Service/version tagging model.
  • Error capture baseline.
  • Trace propagation assumptions.
  • Deployment metadata strategy.
  • Rollback and failure-mode guidance.

Anti-Patterns

  1. One global key for all environments.
  2. Inconsistent service naming across repos.
  3. Rollout without ingestion validation gates.
  4. Treating observability as an afterthought in CI/CD.

Success Metrics

Measure guide quality by outcomes:

  • Faster triage in real incidents.
  • Less time spent correlating data manually.
  • Lower false-positive alert volume.
  • Higher confidence in root-cause decisions.

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