Architecting an Observability Platform

This chapter covers several topics related to architecting a great observability platform for teams in an organization to use. We will discuss how to structure data into domains to help find relevant data quickly in even the largest organizations, and how that relates to other aspects of the business, such as financial reporting and business intelligence (BI). Then, we will discuss architecting the four main system components of an observability platform: data production, data collection, data storage, and data uses such as visualization and alerting. We will cover how to link the architecture with the IaC tools that were discussed in Chapter 10. After that, we will discuss how to use various easily available tools to validate a design with local testing. These tools can also be used in CI/CD pipelines to validate the platform after a change has been implemented. We will discuss the role-based access controls (RBACs) that are implemented in Grafana...