All posts tagged with observability
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Eight microservices on EKS, CloudWatch logs with no trace IDs, and a 45-minute MTTD on every payment incident. We instrumented the full stack with OpenTelemetry Collector, Grafana Tempo, and auto-instrumentation — and found an N+1 query that had been adding 200ms to every payment for months.
In high-traffic news environments, traffic arrives in seconds and Cluster Autoscaler reacts in minutes. The only way out is to pre-scale before the spike — using the editorial CMS as your signal. Here's the full pattern: CMS webhooks, KEDA, and Karpenter.
We built a real-time cost visibility dashboard with Grafana, Prometheus, and custom exporters. Now every team sees exactly what they spend — and they started caring.