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Playbook: Get observability before you need it

Golden signals, structured logs, and alerting wired before the first 3am page.

journey~90 minDevOps EngineersSREsCloud Architects

Journey Steps

1Step 1 — Instrument the four golden signals: start with "Emit RED metrics per endpoint: rate, errors, duration histograms"
2Step 2 — Adopt structured logging that answers questions: start with "Log JSON with timestamp, level, service, route, request_id, user_id"
3Step 3 — Run a calm incident response flow: start with "Declare early; assign Incident Commander separate from fixers"
4How it fits together: SLOs from user journeys, alerts on burn rates. Practice the incident flow before the incident.

Commands

Install all referenced skills

$ npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill observability-golden-signals && npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill observability-structured-logging && npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill incidents-vercel-incident-response-flow

Tags

#playbook#journey#devops-cloud

Install this skill

$ npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill playbook-devops-cloud-observability-boot -a opencode

SKILL.md

# Playbook: Get observability before you need it

> Golden signals, structured logs, and alerting wired before the first 3am page.

## When to Use This Skill

Golden signals, structured logs, and alerting wired before the first 3am page.

## Steps

1. Step 1 — Instrument the four golden signals: start with "Emit RED metrics per endpoint: rate, errors, duration histograms"
2. Step 2 — Adopt structured logging that answers questions: start with "Log JSON with timestamp, level, service, route, request_id, user_id"
3. Step 3 — Run a calm incident response flow: start with "Declare early; assign Incident Commander separate from fixers"
4. How it fits together: SLOs from user journeys, alerts on burn rates. Practice the incident flow before the incident.

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